On common practices.
Aug. 24th, 2013 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingAn argument I have had with the lovely ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
torrain:
I triple-check medications. I read all the notes and when a pharmacist hands me a bottle of pills, I check to make sure the label matches the prescription and also that the note pamplet matches what I went to the doctor for. Most times this results in the pharmacist explaining a perceived inconsistency that's my fault for being a non-expert, occasionally I catch a mistake.
I double-check fast food orders. I read the screen and if something looks wrong on the display-to-workers with respect to what I've said to the cashier, I ask about it. Sometimes this has them explaining to me why I don't know their system, more often I've found a mistake.
My Lovely Wife thinks I'm weird for second-guessing pharmacists AT ALL, and for obsessively double-checking fast food. Me? Google is one of the smartest people I know. If my pharmacist and my doctor disagree, I want to know why. If Google disagrees with either, or both, I kinda want to know why. And if the instructions to the people who MAKE my food disagree with what I want my food to be, I want to know whay.
And beyond that, I was raised with the practice that, as soon as you accept a medication from a pharmacist, you IMMEDIATELY check the medication and the dosage to determine if it matches the prescription, because pharmacists are awesome and RARELY make mistakes but the one time they do make a mistake you are totally fucked. So you check their work.
[Poll #1930624]
torrain:I triple-check medications. I read all the notes and when a pharmacist hands me a bottle of pills, I check to make sure the label matches the prescription and also that the note pamplet matches what I went to the doctor for. Most times this results in the pharmacist explaining a perceived inconsistency that's my fault for being a non-expert, occasionally I catch a mistake.
I double-check fast food orders. I read the screen and if something looks wrong on the display-to-workers with respect to what I've said to the cashier, I ask about it. Sometimes this has them explaining to me why I don't know their system, more often I've found a mistake.
My Lovely Wife thinks I'm weird for second-guessing pharmacists AT ALL, and for obsessively double-checking fast food. Me? Google is one of the smartest people I know. If my pharmacist and my doctor disagree, I want to know why. If Google disagrees with either, or both, I kinda want to know why. And if the instructions to the people who MAKE my food disagree with what I want my food to be, I want to know whay.
And beyond that, I was raised with the practice that, as soon as you accept a medication from a pharmacist, you IMMEDIATELY check the medication and the dosage to determine if it matches the prescription, because pharmacists are awesome and RARELY make mistakes but the one time they do make a mistake you are totally fucked. So you check their work.
[Poll #1930624]