The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7334 p114
29 January 2005

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We've had enough of...

A problem shared is a problem halved

From Mr P. J. Beckley, MRPharmS

Readers of The Sunday Express will be familiar with an amusing weekly feature entitled “We’ve had enough of …” (readers send in suggestions). Since a problem shared is a problem halved, after a particularly stressful day it occurred to me that perhaps The Journal could run a similar feature. Many suggestions spring to mind:

· Patients who say “it’s only tablets”
· Increasingly large packs that do not fit on the shelves
· Customers who say “I’ll wait” and then walk out of the shop
· Parallel-imported packs of four tablets replacing packs of 28 tablets
· Trying to stay awake after a 10-hour day to do continuing professional development
· Increasing workloads and decreasing staff numbers
· Popular medicines that manufacturers cannot supply
· Incomplete hospital prescriptions
· Illegible hospital prescriptions
· Spiralling retention fees

Other pharmacists will have had enough of other things I am sure.

Peter Beckley
Crawley, West Sussex

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