URxProbablyRxight
Meds & Counsel without Patience for Patients
Ever heard of Dick’s Last Resort? Never been to the restaurant myself, but I love the concept. It’s like the court jester in medieval times being able to tell the King the harsh truth since everything he said was in—you guessed it—jest. Why has no pharmacy taken up this business practice? If patients expect harsh but fair truth from the pharmacy team, they’ll accept it readily.
Welcome to URxProbablyRxight. The pharmacy of the future where we provide “Meds & Counsel without Patience for Patients.”
Elf on the Pharmacy Shelf
[Tech]: “Hey, Marianne. You familiar with Elf on the Shelf?”
[Rph]: “Heard of it, yeah.”
[Tech]: “What would you think if next year we got one for the pharmacy?”
[Rph]: “Not interested.”
[Tech]: “Come on. It’d be fun! We could change its position every day.”
[Rph]: “Yeah, sooo much fun, Lesley. I’ll have to worry about that while we have 60 in data entry, 110 in dispensing, 114 and 38 in my queues, and 6 transfers from yesterday I still haven’t gotten to. And, yeah, 15 vaccines scheduled in the next 3 hours!”
[Tech]: “Fine. The techs could take care of it.”
[Rph]: “Well, I’m sure as hell not gonna.”
[Tech]: “Or we can make a new sign with a holiday-related insult every day.”
[Rph]: “Great. An elf and puns.”
[Tech]: “Those are a few of your favorite things.”
[Rph]: “So, yeah, that’s a big ‘No’ for me.”
[Tech]: “So, Roger—what do you say?”
[Rph 2]: “Sure! My wife and I do EOTS with the kids. I’ll get us a boy and a girl!”