I always enjoy when customers mangle medication names. I understand, as many of these names don’t exactly roll off the tongue and some of them are real tongue-twisters. So I’m not making fun of them (at least not entirely). And let’s be honest, even the clerks, techs and pharmacists can do a number on a […]
The clerk came back with the blue slip in her hands and snickered “I don’t know, she said something about her Afghanistan drops,” and walked away laughing. We all waited to see what the pharmacist would discover in the customers profile.
Yes, sure enough, the customer requested a refill for her Afghanistan drops. Eye drops, that […]
Here are a few mispronunciations for relatively common medications :
Coudamin = Coumadin
Fonisopril = Fosinopril
Panatol = Patanol
Fenofexadine = Fexofenadine
All of these are understandable and believable. If you’re not in the business, who can tell the difference?
But how about Splenda? A customer asked for a refill of Splenda. They meant Plendil. That one’s pretty good, I think.