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Hi Students

On my first day (and week really) I had never worked in a pharmacy, and kept putting bits of paper in the wrong places. That caused my tutor to shout at me a lot!

On the Thursday it was my tutors day off, and we had this old woman who did locums but used to own her own shop. We got a script in for a pill I had done an essay about, and started asking her questions and trying to get a conversation about how the various pils work etc. She got really nasty, and it dawned on me that she had no idea how they worked. She called me stupid, and said I didn't know anything because I misjudged that a triangle full of tablets would fit into a certain size of bottle! She went mad when I didn't know the forumula for aqueous cream and shouted "you know nothing" to which I replied "I know how the pill works"

I spent the rest of the year doing basically what confused.com writes in the 2nd paragraph. I think my heart sank most when I asked one pharmacist if GP's ever asked his opinion on things, to which he replied "All the time. Dr X asked me only last week if fortisip comes in banana flavour" and that was a serious answer!

I think after a week I had pharmacy sussed out.