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Hey guys, doing a pharmacy internship at a hospital this summer. I remember a meme going around about blah blah blah "this is what america does to black women, they eat themselves obese and then they end up in the hospital getting pumped full of antibiotics. This is literally what goes on in this hospital for inpatients on the daily. Let me give you the usual gist: They do blood work, they check vitals at the ER. If you elderly or obese you will be moved to inpatient 95% of the time. Then they check your urine because youre inpatient. Literally everyone has a UTI at any given time. Literally everyone's blood pressure is also off, or their hemoynamics are slightly unstable. So they treat everyone by pumping them full of saline, antibiotics, and blood pressure medicine. Monitor for 2-3 days, then they get sent home.
Now at the pharmacy it's literally the same drugs we give everyone:
Dulcolax (for constipation due to being inpatient???)
Apixaban (for DVT prophylaxis due to being inpatient???)
Saline (for hydration??? Why not just drink gatorade)
Vancomycin (To prevent MRSA or tx of UTI)
Labetalol

This CANT be how medicine is. It seems too much like a robotic tune up.

>> No.11888150

>>11888137
Cool story bro

>> No.11888274

>>11888137
>Dulcolax (for constipation due to being inpatient???)
>Apixaban (for DVT prophylaxis due to being inpatient???)
>Saline (for hydration??? Why not just drink gatorade)
Come back after you've done your internship and learnt the basics of hospital pharmacy.

>> No.11888277

>>11888274
no dude i know why these are here. i just think they are overall unecessary. i used to work in this hospital actually as a tech and one of the old boomer pharmacists admitted to me that: yea thats how we make our money by selling miralax for 200$

>> No.11888284

Which do you think is more profitable? Sending patients home or admitting them?

>> No.11888392

>>11888284
selling people preventative services.

>> No.11888537

>>11888392
wrong

>> No.11888649

>>11888537
why how am i wrong?

>> No.11888679

>>11888137
>using the word literally four times in a paragraph

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11889724

Pony up, nerd boy, your taxes are due bootlicker!

>> No.11889967

>>11888137
>Vancomycin (To prevent MRSA or tx of UTI)
What??
I though using antibiotics to prevent something was practically banned now. And how did the SA get MR?

>> No.11889987

>>11888137
>another poltard meme thread
such a cool true and real story bro

>> No.11890279

>>11888137
>apixaban for DVT prophylaxis in obese patients
>vancomycin for MRSA prophylaxis

Jesus Christ what backwater pharmacy school/hospital do you go to

>> No.11890453

>>11888649
by preventing the disease you can't charge them for lengthy or repeat treatments

>> No.11890501

>>11890279
>prophylaxis in obese patients
Perhaps a powerful laxative would be more effective.

>> No.11890745

>>11888137
Why dont we just feed tapeworm eggs or any other benine parasite to fat people?
They would be free to continue overeating themselves while their impact on society would be lowered