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Okay. We need some.humor on this board, what is the most outrageous thing to ever happen on your shift?
Most outrageous thing to happen on your shift
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Was working at the hospital. It was hot so I decided to open the window. Someone came by and told me to close the window and said the director doesn't want any windows open because she doesn't want bugs and bees coming in, I didn't listen to them and kept it open. Went on lunch break and came back to find 3 small birds flying around the pharmacy and ****ting all over the place.
Another time was when I was an intern at a nursing home pharmacy. I was out delivering meds to the floors and as I'm passing by one of the rooms, a patient starts yelling to ask for help. I run in to ask what's wrong and she tells me that there is pornography on the TV. I look up to the TV and indeed there is a woman in scrubs performing fellatio on a man in a white coat. Then I realize that this channel is the live feed from the chapel.
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On the strange events involving animals. Once while the DM was making a site visit and basically doing what they do best, get in the way and lower morale. While the DM was talking to a technician at the drive thru a large male stray dog wondered into our drive thru and relieved himself for quite a long period of time on the lane 2 tube return. The DM just watched silently. Then I heard the tech say "I guess he feels the same way about having 2 drive thru lanes." Classic.
every day there's something. Today it was the friend of a girl who died 1 week ago trying to pick up her CII. We called the family, they said she died. Then the family called back and said no she didn't die, just kidding, sell the CII. We did not.
When I was in high school, two kids from my church youth group were caught going at it in a Sunday school room.
I didn't believe the story at the time, but I'm pretty sure now that it was true. Both of them were a few sandwiches short of a picnic.But really, a (I'm assuming) nurse and doctor ought to know better.
One amusing moment I can think of was when I worked at the grocery store. I had stepped out of the pharmacy for reasons I don't remember now, and as I walked back in, there was an elderly man sitting at the blood pressure machine and I could see his entire hairy butt crack.
I then whispered in the tech's ear, "Check out the old guy at the blood pressure machine!" which she did, and she got the goofiest smirking look on her face. She sometimes helped her dad in his construction business, and told me that it's really true what they say about plumbers and their pants. She later became an RN and worked in an ER for a while, so she's probably become quite shockproof in the meantime.- Joined
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When I was working for rite aid, a patient pooped in one of the aisles. There was a trail out the door.
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I had this same thing happen to me at cvs. Gross and disgusting. The bathroom was kept locked and required key from upfront.
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The sad thing is the bathrooms didn't require a key..
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Not my story but another Druggist's ordeal at Rite Aid...Patient comes to consultation in hand with bag of feces containing ghost shells asking the druggist to identify them....patient was on mesalamine (sigh).
Something similar happened to me my first day as a tech at Walgreens. Except I think the person was making a statement because they pooped next to the toilet.
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Lol that reminds me of my pt that that brought her oxybutynin er tablets in she fished from the toilet. My tech called me over because she was about to throw up. I could still read part of the imprint on them. Apparently she told me later that she had part of her intestines removed.
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hmmmm. Hard to pick just one:
-There has been road rage in my drive thru (One guy ramming another guys car because he thought he was taking too long)
-old men getting into a literal fist fight because they thought they were cut in line at the register
-Got robbed by 2 off duty cops
-My district manager taking in 10 to 12 prescriptions from somebody who just got out of the hospital and telling them it will be ready in 10 minutes and walking away when i had no tech help.
- Here is my favorite story. Just a warning when i told my tech what happened he literally gagged and through up. I was in the pharmacy and I saw what looked like a ghetto lady stealing stuff. She appeared to be shoving merchandise into her pants. I went out into the isle to be a deterrent. When I approached the lady she was digging into her pants like like she was mining for gold or something. When I got into arms length distance from her she pulled her hands out of her pants and sniffed her fingers and then preceded to ask me what isle the feminine products were in.
-There has been road rage in my drive thru (One guy ramming another guys car because he thought he was taking too long)
-old men getting into a literal fist fight because they thought they were cut in line at the register
-Got robbed by 2 off duty cops
-My district manager taking in 10 to 12 prescriptions from somebody who just got out of the hospital and telling them it will be ready in 10 minutes and walking away when i had no tech help.
- Here is my favorite story. Just a warning when i told my tech what happened he literally gagged and through up. I was in the pharmacy and I saw what looked like a ghetto lady stealing stuff. She appeared to be shoving merchandise into her pants. I went out into the isle to be a deterrent. When I approached the lady she was digging into her pants like like she was mining for gold or something. When I got into arms length distance from her she pulled her hands out of her pants and sniffed her fingers and then preceded to ask me what isle the feminine products were in.
Never had that happen, although I once had a nurse tell us about one of our patients telling a story about fishing the wax matrix of her potassium tablets out of her stool and crushing it with her fingers.
I cracked up because I could totally see that woman doing this and telling the nurse about it. 
She waas actually a nice woman, albeit not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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Did you say you were robbed by 2 cops?
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Yes. They were 2 off duty cops who were active on the police force. One of the officers apparently got hurt on the job and developed a real bad narcotic addiction because of his injuries. The pair robbed something like 6 pharmacies before they got caught.
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At Target, we had a single person bathroom next to the pharmacy.
I saw a lady running for the bathroom, holding her 8 year old by the armpits while he spewed vomit.
I then realized he'd flooded a 5 foot section of the aisle with semi fluid vomit.
As I was heading out the door with the "caution wet floor" sign, one of our crabby middle aged typical "actually thinks target is high end" patients was walking away from our register.
She was making a beeline for the vomit.
I called out to her to warn her, but she ignored me because that's just who she is.
Right as I reach her, she takes a giant step in the pool of vomit, and takes a Charlie Chaplin fall.
She lands on her side, and rolls onto her back.
Freaking covered in chunky, slimy fluid.
She finally gets up while saying "WHAT IS THIS", and then runs for the exit.
I've never laughed so hard in the Back of the pharmacy ever before.
I saw a lady running for the bathroom, holding her 8 year old by the armpits while he spewed vomit.
I then realized he'd flooded a 5 foot section of the aisle with semi fluid vomit.
As I was heading out the door with the "caution wet floor" sign, one of our crabby middle aged typical "actually thinks target is high end" patients was walking away from our register.
She was making a beeline for the vomit.
I called out to her to warn her, but she ignored me because that's just who she is.
Right as I reach her, she takes a giant step in the pool of vomit, and takes a Charlie Chaplin fall.
She lands on her side, and rolls onto her back.
Freaking covered in chunky, slimy fluid.
She finally gets up while saying "WHAT IS THIS", and then runs for the exit.
I've never laughed so hard in the Back of the pharmacy ever before.
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Both of these happened when I was a technician.
Had a girl ask if she could take Plan B before she went on a camping trip with frat boys to keep her from getting pregnant. At the same pharmacy we also had a woman threaten to sue us because her period hadn't changed and she felt no different after starting her oral birth control (meaning we gave her the wrong stuff), she was putting the trinessa tablets in her vagina. Her instructions clearly said take by mouth and she was counselled on her first fill as per state law (was documented in our system due to a hard counselling override being required).
We had a woman wanting to get her Xanax filled early. She'd scope the drop off window and tell a different story when a different tech was working it. The first story was "my pills fell in the toilet." Tech says we'd need to call the doctor, she left. Second story was "My pills got stolen," tech asked if she had any kind of police report and that we'd still have to call the doctor. Third story was "my baby got into my meds and took 47 Xanax that I had left." The pharmacist intervenes and tells her to take her baby to the ER immediately and offered to call an ambulance for her. Her reply was "oh no, she does this all the time and she's always fine." The patient left and didn't come back after that.
Had a girl ask if she could take Plan B before she went on a camping trip with frat boys to keep her from getting pregnant. At the same pharmacy we also had a woman threaten to sue us because her period hadn't changed and she felt no different after starting her oral birth control (meaning we gave her the wrong stuff), she was putting the trinessa tablets in her vagina. Her instructions clearly said take by mouth and she was counselled on her first fill as per state law (was documented in our system due to a hard counselling override being required).
We had a woman wanting to get her Xanax filled early. She'd scope the drop off window and tell a different story when a different tech was working it. The first story was "my pills fell in the toilet." Tech says we'd need to call the doctor, she left. Second story was "My pills got stolen," tech asked if she had any kind of police report and that we'd still have to call the doctor. Third story was "my baby got into my meds and took 47 Xanax that I had left." The pharmacist intervenes and tells her to take her baby to the ER immediately and offered to call an ambulance for her. Her reply was "oh no, she does this all the time and she's always fine." The patient left and didn't come back after that.
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Those PV PO OCs always crack me up...how about the person who doesn't remove the foil for the PR suppositories? Reoccurring theme
Wow, so the girl actually said she was going to go on a camping trip with frat guys? She didn't even choose to say "my boyfriend" instead? Maybe some people don't realize what certain statements reveal about them to other folks...
Not to mention what that says about the frat boys, if you think about it.
LOL, good point; I didn't think about that side of it. I should probably feel more ashamed than I do for wondering where these girls hang out.
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I had an aisle pooper once, too. Dude put an empty cardboard box over it at least. One of the overnight front store workers took some sort of psychosis inducing drug and started dancing on the cars in the parking lot in the middle of his shift. Police came and tazed him. It was like 2AM. Another overnight front store worker was selling weed out of the parking lot during smoke breaks and got busted by LP during an audit. Had a woman pee in the waiting room chair.
All the fun honestly stopped when CVS stopped selling cigarettes. Cigarettes attract the crazies.
All the fun honestly stopped when CVS stopped selling cigarettes. Cigarettes attract the crazies.
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It was an attending physician and a unit clerk that were going at it. They were having sex by the time someone from security went to go investigate. Apparently, the doctor still works there and the unit clerk got fired. Apparently since it was in the evening they thought they were pretty secluded and that the chapel would be somewhere no one would go to look and had no idea there was a live feed from the chapel room. (Some of the residents can't physically move to go to the mass they hold on Sundays there so there is a live feed so they can watch from their beds.)
Not sure if this counts as outrageous (probably more random AF), but a few weeks ago, a voice-mail with 8 different scripts was called in (that was SUPER fun to write down on paper 
). I wasn't sure how her name was spelled (it wasn't a common name), so I took a shot, and actually found her in our system. However, when she came to pick them up, turns out her name was spelled differently: we had entered 8 scripts for the wrong patient. It all went downhill from there:
). I wasn't sure how her name was spelled (it wasn't a common name), so I took a shot, and actually found her in our system. However, when she came to pick them up, turns out her name was spelled differently: we had entered 8 scripts for the wrong patient. It all went downhill from there:- Some of her meds were nebulizer solutions, and weren't covered with medicare part B, since there wasn't a diagnosis code (and you can't send those over voicemail anyway).
- We called the Dr back, but he had left for the day, and the nurse(s) said there was no one in the office to send a new script. This whole time, the patient just stared at us from the counter, which was weird.
- One of her meds was albuterol solution, which would have cost about $20 bucks with cash, but she straight-up refused to pay on principal, saying that it's technically medicine, so her regular insurance *should* cover it.
- Finally, she said she would just transfer her meds to another pharmacy, but we warned her that medicare part B meds can't be transferred, and that the Dr would have to send new scripts. After non-stop lecturing about morals and *the right thing* and whatnot (literally, over an hour of non-stop talking on her end), she FINALLY paid for her meds and left
- Except, nope, she wasn't really gone: a few days later, we got alerted that she wanted to dispute the credit card charges for these meds
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Not sure if this counts as outrageous (probably more random AF), but a few weeks ago, a voice-mail with 8 different scripts was called in (that was SUPER fun to write down on paper
- Some of her meds were nebulizer solutions, and weren't covered with medicare part B, since there wasn't a diagnosis code (and you can't send those over voicemail anyway).
- We called the Dr back, but he had left for the day, and the nurse(s) said there was no one in the office to send a new script. This whole time, the patient just stared at us from the counter, which was weird.
- One of her meds was albuterol solution, which would have cost about $20 bucks with cash, but she straight-up refused to pay on principal, saying that it's technically medicine, so her regular insurance *should* cover it.
- Finally, she said she would just transfer her meds to another pharmacy, but we warned her that medicare part B meds can't be transferred, and that the Dr would have to send new scripts. After non-stop lecturing about morals and *the right thing* and whatnot (literally, over an hour of non-stop talking on her end), she FINALLY paid for her meds and left
- Except, nope, she wasn't really gone: a few days later, we got alerted that she wanted to dispute the credit card charges for these meds
Bahahaha,
You should've given her a bill to present to her doctor
It's not unusual for hospitals and nursing homes to do this, and I suppose it never occurred to anyone to turn it off when they weren't having a service?
Most likely, the doctor wasn't an employee but simply had patients in the facility, whereas the unit clerk was. It's still awfully bizarre.
I worked for a while at a small hospital that had an ER doctor about whom it was well known that he had battled alcoholism for many years, and had been sober for quite some time. I was told by a longtime tech that back in his drinking days, he and a female ER employee (she added that neither were married at the time; he was by the time I worked there) sneaked off to a closet and while she was doing what the couple in the chapel were doing, had a seizure and nearly bit it off.
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I can't believe the poop stories . I think the funniest thing that happened to me was when a patient asked me to give the flu shot in her butt.
. I think the funniest thing that happened to me was when a patient asked me to give the flu shot in her butt.
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Not sure if this counts as outrageous (probably more random AF), but a few weeks ago, a voice-mail with 8 different scripts was called in (that was SUPER fun to write down on paper
- Some of her meds were nebulizer solutions, and weren't covered with medicare part B, since there wasn't a diagnosis code (and you can't send those over voicemail anyway).
- We called the Dr back, but he had left for the day, and the nurse(s) said there was no one in the office to send a new script. This whole time, the patient just stared at us from the counter, which was weird.
- One of her meds was albuterol solution, which would have cost about $20 bucks with cash, but she straight-up refused to pay on principal, saying that it's technically medicine, so her regular insurance *should* cover it.
- Finally, she said she would just transfer her meds to another pharmacy, but we warned her that medicare part B meds can't be transferred, and that the Dr would have to send new scripts. After non-stop lecturing about morals and *the right thing* and whatnot (literally, over an hour of non-stop talking on her end), she FINALLY paid for her meds and left
- Except, nope, she wasn't really gone: a few days later, we got alerted that she wanted to dispute the credit card charges for these meds
I've gotten these voicemails in the past. I've called back and told the caller this is a huge patient safety risk to put all the scripts on one voicemail and tell them I won't fill unless they fax or escript them over. It's generally some know it all nurse trying to save their own time, but it is a patient safety risk and I believe in CYA in these situations.
White trash woman comes into the pharmacy in a string bikini wanting methadone filled. Pharmacist wants rid of her... tried to refuse it and she flashed us and asked again for us to fill it. She gave up and left after a second no.
Then you have the hundreds and hundreds of patients who have had a mental breakdown over wait times/prices... people smoking weed in the drive through, etc.
Then you have the hundreds and hundreds of patients who have had a mental breakdown over wait times/prices... people smoking weed in the drive through, etc.
