[Zoggite]

1. No, I don't own my pharmacy(it's one of a Large multiple), never have done, and I don't want to, either. I willingly turned down an offer of a profit-related bonus as I believe there is often a conflict of interest between the healyh of the till-drawer and that of the patient...
2.average 200 items a day, peaks of 350/day, especially in the summer & before bank holidays when I open 7 days/week.
3. okay, I don't have any regular, local methadone patients throughout the year; I usually end up with about 6/day in the summer season, as they come on holiday to North Wales too!
4.No needle exchange, the scheme has collapsed in my area due to the "NIMBY"-attitude of the local population, so Hepatitis-C infection rates are set to rise again...
5.Not sure what you mean...lots of hugs from my staff, lots of handshakes from my patients, even the odd freebie haircut once!
I did get stabbed in the arm once when I was working in Brussels: I foolishly refused to hand out some rohypnol on demand, the script was a dreadful attempt at a forgery...
6.why do you assume I'm a bloke? I'm a 38-year-old woman, 5ft 8in, size 12 dress.
7.Honestly: no, I am not bored of checking scripts. It isn't a major part of my working day, maybe that's because I only have 200 items a day to check.
Dreaming up what to cook tonight and having to go food-shopping every week, now THAT's boring!
8.Without any hesitation I would recommend this job to my children. I myself didn't have any pharmacists in my family; I hope that I can infect as many people as possible with my enthousiasm and passion!
9.North Wales coast- why? would you like a new job? all things can be arranged!( nice subject for a TV programme-"Job-Swap"!)