I am going to talk to all our new 1st year pharmacy students soon and I want to inspire them with a personal story of how a hospital pharmacist saved a life. I haven't worked in hospital for a long time, can anyone give me a story with a happy ending?
Don't know if this is useful or relevant, and it certainly isn't up to date, but when I was a student I was visiting my dad in hospital (he was a GP) and the guy in the next bed had the clearest example of a penicillin rash I've ever seen. I asked dad what was wrong with him, and dad said that he had an infection of the heart muscle. I asked if he was being given penicillin, the answer was yes, long-term. I said, I thought so, the rash looked so typical. It turned out that no-one had been able to work out what the rash was caused by. Frankly I thought it beggared belief. There was a flurry of activity once my dad had had a word with the ward sister.
Anyway, the dilemma then became that it was only the penicillin that was keeping him alive, but I think they tinkered a bit with the preparation, etc. and that helped.
And ward rounds for pharmacists started only 15 years later!
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