I have known or encountered some healthcare professionals that seems to have stopped learning once they got their diploma and/or license. As if, they had learned everything that they would need to know while they were in school.. Unfortunately, what medical science knows is dwarfed by what it doesn’t know about how the human body functions.
In this particular example, the Rx dept staff either didn’t know about this relative new test that determines if a person is a faster than normal metabolizer of opiates… meaning that they may need higher doses or more frequent doses or BOTH to get the pain relief that a “normal metabolizer” would need… or they just don’t care !
BTW… the extra trip that the Pharmacist wanted this pt to travel to come back another day was 180 MILES round trip…. and seemingly didn’t care if the pt had to make this trip multiple times.
Is lying to a pt considered UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT… but the only way that a pt is going to prove being lied to is to video the interaction .. and to file a complaint with the state Board of Pharmacy.
Filed under: General Problems
Is ignorance proof of a lie? All the pharmacist has to say is, well, I didn’t know.