Getting to the bottom of things

Well it’s coming to end of my first week back in community pharmacy and I’m starting to feel like an old hand already.

I’ve always really enjoyed talking to patients ( for me this is what community pharmacy is all about) and I always make an effort to counsel patients taking new medicines, or with any alterations to their existing repeats. The rest of the dispensary staff have quickly cottoned onto this and give me all the patient counselling to do which is fine by me. I’ve had some interesting encounters already, for example the patient who dropped his trousers when I invited him into the counselling room to show me a burn on his stomach.