Pharm Fun:
1) At the pharmacy they prepare 7-day pill packs for some of their psychiatric or older patients because they can't manage their medications a month at a time. It's interesting to see them fill it out. It's designed like a little booklet with slots for morning, lunch, evening, and night. The pills go into clear plastic slots and then a cardboard-like booklet is stuck to it. The part covering the pills is foil, so the patient just punches it out for that dose.
2) Safety caps are recommended but not required. This isn't that big of an issue since most of the meds are in blister packs, but the vials they do have are all random--some safety, some not.
3) Instead of writing "take a half teaspoonful," they write "take a half 5ml spoonful."
Non-Pharm:
Today I learned about Travelers/Tinkers. These are terms to describe Irish gypsies... Apparently they date back to the Famine where people would be kicked off their land so they would just wander around homeless in their wagon (now a car). These people are known to steal things and there is really no prosecution for the theft. All a shop owner could do is yell and tell them to leave. The Travelers then take the stolen goods and go door to door selling things at reduced prices. They don't pay taxes, don't pay for things, but yet they still get aid from the government...
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