Intermission

You may be asking yourself why I’m going on like this. Remember what it is about my career as a pharmacist that causes me the most angst. I am lacking the personal connections with other humans for 12 hours a day. For the most part I enjoy working with the technicians. They are mostly younger women with a language quite diverse and at the same time simple. Most interactions with patients are very transactional. And that transactional basis for a patient/healthcare provider relationship is at the heart of what is wrong with the medical community today. Basically I have the drugs, and they want the drugs. End of relationship. I do, on occasion, have a meaningful conversation with a patient that I have known for a while but those are few and far between. I mostly have hostile conversations about the cost and availability of medicines and what is causing the drama in the techs lives that day. I yearn for the days of old when a community had one doctor to serve them. The doctor knew the community and the community knew the doctor. The interactions were not merely a transfer of services. The doctor knew all about a patients family. Most likely, the doctor even delivered the children and watched them grow up in the community. It is for that reason that I am sharing my story. I want to not only provide a service to the community, but to be an integral part of it. I’m hoping these blogs and stories will give you an insight into who I am as a person before meeting me as a practitioner. Till next time, good night.