The Phunny Pharm

Pheatured Again!

Published on 2012-02-09 05:33:00

My blog has been featured on someone else's blog/website again! Check it out: Click here please... or don't. Your loss... It's somewhere in the middle. One day I'll be featured at the top. One day...

Pheeble-minded Pharmacy Assistant

Published on 2012-02-09 05:19:00

It's been way more than 6 months, so I'll make my come back with a short one. I'm still very busy! One afternoon, a woman comes into the pharmacy and hands the assistant a prescription. "I'd like the genetic brand please," She stated. Now, if you know what the word 'genetic' means, you'll know that it has very little to do with medicine: GENETIC: of or relating to genetics, genes, or the origin of something GENE: A segment of DNA, occupying a specific place on a chromosome, that is the basi

Phoxy Photos

Published on 2011-07-21 23:10:00

Back in the glory years of pharmacy, before the digital age, there used to be this service called photo processing. For those that don't remember, it involved dropping off 35mm film from a camera then sending it to a company who processed the photos and returned it the following day. Rarely, the pharmacy had its own processing lab and could have the photos processed in an hour. That was like 5 years ago... I was lucky enough to work in a pharmacy that actually had one of those processing labs.

Phuk Yeah!

Published on 2011-06-12 05:34:00

Was just checking some background stuff to do with this blog and accidentally discovered I made someone's top 50 list! Check it here: Pharmacy technician certification - 50 Best Blogs About Pharmaceuticals It's somewhere near the bottom... but that's not a bad thing! Pity I didn't make the top 5 though. Might have to whore myself out a bit harder next time... hehe. And here I thought only 3 people read this blog. Four if you include me!!

Phalling Anatomy

Published on 2011-06-12 04:48:00

While working in a pharmacy, you get to meet a lot of children, some cute, some loud, some messy, some ugly (have you ever seen a really ugly baby and then said to the mother, ‘oh how adorable’?), but I’ll be honest, mostly cute. And I’m saying that because I only have to see them for five to ten minutes at a time. Once they’ve finished being cute in my presence they can go back to their parents and have runny diarrhoea for all I care! I usually only get to see their good side. So one

When I’m at a Conpherence, everything has to be Phree!

Published on 2011-05-22 05:26:00

A long time ago, in a Pharmacy Conference far, far away, when I had just graduated as a pharmacist, I went around trying to grab everything I could that was free - as you do at those sorts of things. It’s what they are there for, not for learning anything and certainly not for buying anything! I got a few free magnets, coffee mugs, heaps and heaps of pens, samples of all sorts of creams and lotions (no, there were no samples of Viagra – it probably wasn’t even around then…), had my bone

Surprise! Phluids!

Published on 2011-05-15 09:44:00

Oh man! It's been, like, 10 years since I posted anything! I could write about why I've had no time to write recently, but I don't care. I mean, you don't care... (I still don't care). So here's the latest addition: One afternoon, a mother came in with her two young toddlers, the youngest a boy, the other a girl. She asked me if we had any nappies. “Of course,” I said and showed her to the baby section. After selecting a convenience size pack of nappies for her son, she then asked me if

Pharmacist Phail

Published on 2010-11-17 08:20:00

I've been so busy lately I've had no time to write anything! Very sorry, not that anyone really noticed... I'm the pharmacist who phailed... Anyway, here's a short one for you: A lady walks into the pharmacy and says to the pharmacy student, "I want a spray or something to numb the pain in my ear from this ear piercing I got yesterday. It's really sore!" "Oh yeah, well, I don't really have anything. But, hang on, you could try this! Stud 100 spray! It' a local anaesthetic spray so can numb th

Pharmacist Inphatuation

Published on 2010-10-29 21:54:00

A woman with scruffy hair and raggedy clothes comes in one morning to the pharmacy and says to me, "Where's Andy?" I reply to her, "Andy's not here today." Abruptly, she says, "Why is he not here?" "He's not rostered on," I answered calmly. "Can you get him?" "No." Then things got a little weird when she announced, "I love him! You're probably jealous because I love him." "I don't like men in that way," I stated firmly. A smile nearly breached my expression, as I thought to myself, "This

Phunky Phragrance

Published on 2010-10-13 22:22:00

One morning working as a student, I was given the task of filling Webster-paks (Blister packs) for community clients. That involves organising all their medication into a single blister for each dosing time of the day, breakfast, lunch, dinner, bedtime. While fulfilling this task, I was exempt from any contact with customers. I was working out in the back staffroom but could still hear transactions as they happened. Being a fairly busy time of the morning, I always seemed to be able to hear at