June 2nd: Heat Wave hits!

So today the heat-wave that everyone has been talking about has hit. Everyone kept commenting on how hot it was...they even turned on the AC. So I decided to check the temperature online--it was 67'F. I asked my preceptor if this was "hot" and he said yeah that was quite hot. I laughed... especially when I told them how warm it's been in Pittsburgh. But the weather was really nice in comparison to the previous weeks. It was sunny with a nice breeze instead of intense wind :) I went for a run to St. Stephen's Green and there were so many people out on benches, on the lawn, and walking around. Everyone seemed so happy. Reminds me of Schenley Plaza in the summer.

Pharmacy stuff:

I've noticed some frustration between the pharmacist and doctors. From what I've observed, the doctor often writes for something that's not available or doesn't even take the patient's opinion into consideration. For example, the doctor initially wanted the pharmacist to crush up Augmentin 500/125 tablets and put it into a suspension of amoxicillin 250/5ml because he wanted a specific dosage of the amoxicillin. Finally he ended up changing it to an available Augmentin suspension...but not without causing frustration first. Another doctor wrote for 2 different suppositories to be used at the same time...which the patient preferred the tablet formulation of the one but the doctor didn't even want to consider it because he liked the suppositories better...but he's not the one that has to get up 4x/day to go insert it.