The joys of working on Bank Holidays

[Zoggite]

You've obviously never come across the patients who've been prescribed salbutamol inhalers for their allergy to pet hairs, and go around spraying the dog/cat with it! Or the man who's rubbing Nitrolingual into his chest, when he gets chest pains... Or the woman who wouldn't take her tube of steroid cream on holiday with her because it said "for local application only"...
As Linnear will attest, it's not just the Cornish that are thick!

[admin]

I once had a young woman (about 20) prescribed a nitrolingual spray. It was when the patients age wasn't on the script. As I handed it over I said "it's obviously not for you" to which she told me it was, and had been prescribed by a hospital consultant for a stomach/bowel problem she had. I tried to think how nitrolingual spray could possibly help with this (from a pharmacology point of view) but couldn't think of any.

I rang the Dr and he said it was on a letter from the hospital, just as the girl had said. When I pointed out my concerns, he agreed it must be wrong, and cancelled it. I think it was in my mind at the time to refuse to dispense it, but I was glad he agreed to stop it.