Never seen Desperate Housewives, but I know Eva Longoria is in it. Was chatting to a friend about her multitasking. She was "studying", "cleaning", "ironing" and "chatting" at the same time, to which I replied "you're training to become a [good] housewife!" (re: the cleaning and ironing bit). She replied, "Yes, a dispensing housewife." (the title of my blog)
I think they're both really similar! (I mean, the housewife and pharmacist in some aspects) - No offense to all those guy pharmacists :P.
While your kids/hubby don't necessarily hand you a prescription to fill, you do do things for them. Some things are unsaid, but you get it done! You buy the groceries, and make sure the house is clean and in order. Even though I'm not a wife, I have a certain threshold to which I can stand filth/disarray. As the pharmacist, you have to make sure you have enough stock (similar to food in the house), and that the pharmacy is neat and tidy so you stay on the OCP inspector's good side. You make 'lunch' for the kids to bring to school, they pick it up at the dispensary (i.e. the kitchen). Patient presents you with a script, they pick up the medications at the dispensary. Your kid brings you their test paper to sign, you sign it to acknowledge that you know how they did, and you're okay with it - maybe. As a pharmacist, you sign off on what the technician did.
When patients are non compliant (i.e. not adherent) with medication taking - you're supposed to counsel them on the importance of taking their medications/following doctor's orders. When your kids act like brats, you give them what they deserve (whether it's the white people method of 'grounding' or the asian method of the feather duster), and give them a long long lecture on why your (advice) is correct. Your husband is an @$$, no words are needed - he gets to sleep on the couch. Really bad patients? Threaten them to find another pharmacist willing to look after their crap. (see the similarities now)
Wives toil their ass off for their family and kids. Really passionate pharmacists (well, even the not so passionate ones), male and female alike, toil their ass off for their patients. A lot of work and sweat gets put into it - but I'm sure that it's very satisfying for both.
And now to avoid getting mean comments, I'm going to include (good) husbands and males as well!
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4 comments:
You are a multi-tasker, Janet. :-P I don't know how you can do so much at one time (msg, Facebook, study, clean, etc.)!
I think you'd make an excellent dispensing housewife. :)
AHaha. That was a good one. ^^
haha..you really thought this out... good one!
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