I was trying to come up with something funny from my day and the best I can think of was the guy who said to me “they say I have a psychotic nerve problem.” He was referring to sciatic nerve pain in his low back going down into his leg. His wife started laughing and I had to try and keep a straight face while he continued to tell me about his pain.
Please always double check your medication bottles when you pick them up at the pharmacy. I had a patient today who had been prescribed a particular type of insulin which is a combination of long and short-acting insulin. The pharmacy sent her home with the short-acting insulin and instructions to give herself 50 units of it three times a day. This is a huge amount of short -acting insulin and could have killed her. Luckily, her blood sugar was very very high when she did it. I called the pharmacy to confirm, and they did admit they had made a mistake, so it wasn’t the patient who was confused.
