What REALLY was going on during the insane wedding-o-rama of 2008 July...
AKA an exercise in salvaging the Foobs (start through August 26)
AKA what happens when real life is allowed to intrude on the Foobs
Friday, February 13, 2009
and one more for Friday
This was slightly inspired by the non-canon letters.
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Hmmm. I think Dee is onto something about her work not being appreciated; but I don't think it's at the pharmacy. Man, I hope this is the start of her putting the pieces together...
I have to agree with you there; Dee's professional life is both useful and appreciated and. It's her home life with an unappreciative thirty-three year old idiot man-child that's the source of her feelings of inadequacy; as soon as she realizes this, the better off she and her kids will be. (Since Mike is beyond human aid, we can safely write him off.)
I feel for Dee here, I think her ambivalence towards both her job and her sewing hobby is pretty understandable. She isn't particularly excited about any part of her life, but she doesn't know how to fix it.
Just a suggestion: I know first-hand that retail pharmacy can be frustrating and thankless - just look at all the angry retail pharmacist blogs out there! Maybe somebody could suggest to Dee that she'd have a little less stress if she worked as a pharmacist at hospital - docs take you seriously (usually) and there's more positive patient contact. (And in the US, no insurance companies... although being Canadian, Dee wouldn't deal with them anyway.)
Also, I've really been enjoying this strip, much more than the originals. Keep up the good work!
I agree with KAfree and DreadedCandiru etc., Dee thinks that she's unhappy because of her job, but she's just experiencing a level of denial here-- her real problem is that she's being mistreated at home. I sure hope this leads to her leaving Mike.
The pharmacy got a bit disorganized about its prescription fraud checking, and Deanna made one of the notable mistakes which led to a more centralized system. She checked up 3 times on the same patient, asking doctors whether the prescriptions were legit, because the patient was getting medication prescribed by several doctors at the same time.
OK. That makes more sense. So, just FMI, is it uncommon in the Canadian system for different doctors to prescribe meds?
Or is it something like where my daughter, who has both ADHD and a heart condition, could have her Atenolol prescribed by her cardiologist, pediatrician and/or psychiatrist?
JCH I honestly don't know how common it would be, but one of those letters harped on about pharmacists hunting down the med-seeking con artists, so I wanted to give it a little twist, with Dee's pharmacy (and her work) not always being super-perfect.
I expect multiple specialists would prescribe different drugs, and the main concern there would be interaction issues. But even if it were uncommon, checking three times sounds like Dee managed to completely forget she'd cleared the guy before.
11 comments:
Hmmm. I think Dee is onto something about her work not being appreciated; but I don't think it's at the pharmacy. Man, I hope this is the start of her putting the pieces together...
I have to agree with you there; Dee's professional life is both useful and appreciated and. It's her home life with an unappreciative thirty-three year old idiot man-child that's the source of her feelings of inadequacy; as soon as she realizes this, the better off she and her kids will be. (Since Mike is beyond human aid, we can safely write him off.)
Everyone needs to figure out what is making her/him unhappy. Sometimes it takes a while.
It may take Dee longer than it would normally because she's been in denial for so long.
I feel for Dee here, I think her ambivalence towards both her job and her sewing hobby is pretty understandable. She isn't particularly excited about any part of her life, but she doesn't know how to fix it.
Uh-oh, she's thinking! Better cowboy up for once, Mike! :-)
Just a suggestion: I know first-hand that retail pharmacy can be frustrating and thankless - just look at all the angry retail pharmacist blogs out there! Maybe somebody could suggest to Dee that she'd have a little less stress if she worked as a pharmacist at hospital - docs take you seriously (usually) and there's more positive patient contact. (And in the US, no insurance companies... although being Canadian, Dee wouldn't deal with them anyway.)
Also, I've really been enjoying this strip, much more than the originals. Keep up the good work!
I agree with KAfree and DreadedCandiru etc., Dee thinks that she's unhappy because of her job, but she's just experiencing a level of denial here-- her real problem is that she's being mistreated at home. I sure hope this leads to her leaving Mike.
I'm lost on what the last panel means.
The pharmacy got a bit disorganized about its prescription fraud checking, and Deanna made one of the notable mistakes which led to a more centralized system. She checked up 3 times on the same patient, asking doctors whether the prescriptions were legit, because the patient was getting medication prescribed by several doctors at the same time.
OK. That makes more sense.
So, just FMI, is it uncommon in the Canadian system for different doctors to prescribe meds?
Or is it something like where my daughter, who has both ADHD and a heart condition, could have her Atenolol prescribed by her cardiologist, pediatrician and/or psychiatrist?
JCH I honestly don't know how common it would be, but one of those letters harped on about pharmacists hunting down the med-seeking con artists, so I wanted to give it a little twist, with Dee's pharmacy (and her work) not always being super-perfect.
I expect multiple specialists would prescribe different drugs, and the main concern there would be interaction issues. But even if it were uncommon, checking three times sounds like Dee managed to completely forget she'd cleared the guy before.
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