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[rph_in_wi]

Re: clip from House

Too funny! Also very realistic.I have had Houses' look on my face before. Kinda "How am I going to say this?"

One story. We were taught a standard set of instructions for suppositories: "Unwrap and insert". As a new, know-it-all pharmacist, I thought this was too descriptive and insulting to the intelligence of my patients. I would write "Insert" only. One day I got a call from a 40ish woman in tears asking when the wrapper on her suppository would come off. I told her before she inserts it. Her silence spoke louder than words. I said, "you did take the wrapper off before you inserted it, didn't you?" More tears.

My error in remembering that people are "stupid" about the things I understand has stuck with me since and has hopefully helped me be a better pharmacist.

I still shake my head though,

RPh