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Hello,
English is my second language and I am working at CVS as a Pharmacy Tech, and I feel so stupid when I don't know how to say the name of the drugs.
I just found this website where they actually say the name of the drug for you, but I was wondering if anybody knew of a better website, because this one is missing some of the drugs like Lexapro.
Thank you
website: http://www.csmwm.org/Pronouncing/dictionary.html#L
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Carboxilic774 said:
Hello,
English is my second language and I am working at CVS as a Pharmacy Tech, and I feel so stupid when I don't know how to say the name of the drugs.
I just found this website where they actually say the name of the drug for you, but I was wondering if anybody knew of a better website, because this one is missing some of the drugs like Lexapro.
Thank you
website: http://www.csmwm.org/Pronouncing/dictionary.html#L
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i think that site only pronounces the drug generic names
 
It's something you learn as you go... from what I've learned anyway.. For the longest time I swore I saw an extra "a" in Norvasc and was pronouncing it Nor-va-sac.... People made fun of me and even made a sign that read "NorvasAc Here ---->"
 
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I just finished at Target and the pharmacists & techs were calling Lyrica

"Lye - REEK - a" instead of "LEER - ic - a"

If you're not sure, go to the manufacturer's website.

I have a friend who says "met a formin" instead of metformin. I don't correct her, but I say metformin when I'm talking to her. She probably thinks that I'm saying it wrong.
 
I gues not everybody is perfect. Thank you guys...
 
there is lexapro on that website, but because it is sorted by generics, you need to find escitalopram.
 
ohhhhhhhhhh, thank you... I am just not very familiar yet with all the brand and generic names.
Thank you
 
I still can't say metoclopramide. It comes out as "metoclomomopramide." I get some funny looks from my preceptor.
 
I hate it when people call the generic for Lopressor "Met - oh - pro -lol" rather than "me-to-pruh-lol." That's how some pretentious wanker from Connecticut would pronounce it! *shakes fist*
 
Isn't the guy pronouncing the cephalosporins wrong? He's saying "Kef-ah-zo-lin" instead of "Sef-ah-zo-lin".
 
WVUPharm2007 said:
I hate it when people call the generic for Lopressor "Met - oh - pro -lol" rather than "me-to-pruh-lol." That's how some pretentious wanker from Connecticut would pronounce it! *shakes fist*
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I'm thinkin' you need to get out of W VA more.....'bout time for another vacation!
 
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My favorite mispronunciation was for Xopenex. "You want a refill on your X-O-penex?" :laugh:
 
WVUPharm2007 said:
I'll remain in my little isolated bubble and you'll like it! Go back to Hartford and eat some clam chowder!!!
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Gosh - I wish I could get to Hartford - I've never seen it (is it worth going?). But...I do like SF clam chowder - does that count????? Oh, we also just say Lopressor....but oh well....

Come west young man!
 
sdn1977 said:
Gosh - I wish I could get to Hartford - I've never seen it (is it worth going?). But...I do like SF clam chowder - does that count????? Oh, we also just say Lopressor....but oh well....

Come west young man!
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Clam Chowder in Sour Dough bread ...Fisherman's Wharf.. good stuff
 
I've recently been using "guy from Connecticut" as an insult because this..well...guy from CT....came into my pharmacy and demanded I give him a Viagra without an Rx because he had it at a pharmacy up North that was closed on a Sunday night. The only being from the state I've ever met. So far the state is 0 for 1. I should probably explain that minor fact first...

I actually "got out" just this weekend as I went to Pittsburgh to see the Blue Man Group and spent 16 hours at Dave & Buster's.
 
WVUPharm2007 said:
I've recently been using "guy from Connecticut" as an insult because this..well...guy from CT....came into my pharmacy and demanded I give him a Viagra without an Rx because he had it at a pharmacy up North that was closed on a Sunday night. The only being from the state I've ever met. So far the state is 0 for 1. I should probably explain that minor fact first...

I actually "got out" just this weekend as I went to Pittsburgh to see the Blue Man Group and spend 16 hours at Dave & Buster's.
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D&B... 2nd rate joint! :thumbup:
 
WVUPharm2007 said:
I've recently been using "guy from Connecticut" as an insult because this..well...guy from CT....came into my pharmacy and demanded I give him a Viagra without an Rx because he had it at a pharmacy up North that was closed on a Sunday night. The only being from the state I've ever met. So far the state is 0 for 1. I should probably explain that minor fact first...

I actually "got out" just this weekend as I went to Pittsburgh to see the Blue Man Group and spend 16 hours at Dave & Buster's.
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Well....that sounds like a judgement against those who can afford to live in CT (who are probably 25 years older than you....maybe the reason for the Viagra on Sun night).....give the guy & his wife a break!!!;) Just think what your wife's nagging could do in 25 years:D - just j/king!

Anyway....glad you got out.....but - 16 hours at Dave & Buster's????? You had the wife with you right????:)?
 
sdn1977 said:
16 hours at Dave & Buster's????? You had the wife with you right????:)?
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She loves it more than me. She can play that trivia game for hours because she KNOWS she will win. She had Ivy League schools beating down her door trying to get her to go to one of them because she was the captain of the best Academic Decathlon team in PA. She chose WVU because it has the best forensics program in the country (wanted to be a forensic pathologist). Then she realized she wanted to have a life before she turned 35 and went to Rx school instead. But, anyway, she's an encyclopedia of worthless information (again, Academic Decathlon) and enjoys making the poor saps that play the game feel her wrath.

As Z alludes to, I am a poor country hick that is just impressed with all the flashy lights.

I saw Dave Wanstedt there, too. The dingus, I wanted to go kick him in the crotch.
 
WVUPharm2007 said:
She loves it more than me. She can play that trivia game for hours because she KNOWS she will win. She had Ivy League schools beating down her door trying to get her to go to one of them because she was the captain of the best Academic Decathlon team in PA. She chose WVU because it has the best forensics program in the country (wanted to be a forensic pathologist). Then she realized she wanted to have a life before she turned 35 and went to Rx school instead. But, anyway, she's an encyclopedia of worthless information (again, Academic Decathlon) and enjoys making the poor saps that play the game feel her wrath.

As Z alludes to, I am a poor country hick that is just impressed with all the flashy lights.

I saw Dave Wanstedt there, too. The dingus, I wanted to go kick him in the crotch.
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once you put her through school, she's going to dump your arse.. :smuggrin:

j/k
 
WVUPharm2007 said:
I hate it when people call the generic for Lopressor "Met - oh - pro -lol" rather than "me-to-pruh-lol." That's how some pretentious wanker from Connecticut would pronounce it! *shakes fist*
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The funny thing about this mispronunciation is that the brand name is like a guide on how to say it. The name "Toprol" makes the generic name pretty self explanatory, ya know?
 
Everyone at my store, preceptor included, calls simvastatin "sim-vastin".
 
beccala33 said:
The funny thing about this mispronunciation is that the brand name is like a guide on how to say it. The name "Toprol" makes the generic name pretty self explanatory, ya know?
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It's pronounced how I pronounce it. The drug makers can pronounce the brand however they want, but they don't control what generic drug name options they are given by the FDA. It is pronounced just like how all of the other beta-blockers that end in -olol are pronounced. Don't let the AstraZeneca marketic get to you. Those dastardly German Nazis!!
 
DHG said:
Good gawd,

Fisherman's Wharf is the armpit of San Francisco. :thumbdown:
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I don't know....I went to No. 9 in 1973 & it had the best chowder then just like it does now!

Those of us who live around here don't go for the ambience - we go for the good food & No. 9 has been around for about 75 years - good chowder, good sourdough, good chardonnay - oh & yeah - stuffy waiters....but that's their hallmark!

We just walk around the tourists! No problem - its a tourist town!
 
WVUPharm2007 said:
Oh well. I'll have a bunch of SDN groupies to latch onto. If I'm not too old/ugly/fat at that point in time.
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You poor thing - you really will be psychotic by then (or was it psychic????) or are they the same:confused: ?
 
I'm both. I predict my opinion of retail pharmacy will be that it sucks.

And, at 12:23AM, retail pharmacy still sucks. Sweet, right again.
 
y'all.. go to bed.
 
DrugDealer said:
Everyone at my store, preceptor included, calls simvastatin "sim-vastin".
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Most of the idiots at my Target rotation also called it sim-vastin. I also took a phone call from a nurse who phoned in a "sim-vastin". I didn't know what drug she was talking about until she spelled it.
 
There is a Drug Pronunciations application if you have an iPhone that is pretty useful. It contains over 2500 drugs and has audio pronunciations for each one. Find it under the Medical category on the app store. They also have a lite free version with just over 200 drugs.
 
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