Its been 2 weeks since i started working as a pharmacist...(no preceptor lurking nearby to countercheck my mistakes). felt a bit unsettling at the beginning...very scared that i made mistakes, i keep staring at the prescriptions, again and again, even after the customers left, to double check and triple check.

Been asked to join this and that, biggest being the Sales performance team....to announce incentives to my zone (north and west). And join the planning for family day for Dairy Farm Group. then also to commit to wanting to be a preceptor. so i get trained up as soon as i have 18months of working experience. (which also happens to be the time my bond ends! so i'll be entering into another "bond", this time unspoken and unwritten)

the weekend before i started work, i got a call on saturday night (when i was in malaysia, slacking away). "Grace, can you work tomorrow? Night, Centrepoint?"

wow my first ehass (overtime) at my training store...and i get paid the highest overtime pay? plus i'm not working till tuesday...so i went...despite my splitting headache. by the way, the headache was really bad, i had to take codeine to stop it, panadol didn't work.

been to 4 stores already. Admiralty place, Chinatown point, Ang Mo Kio again, and my own store, only 3 times. my store is the busiest....you go there, you talk non-stop, and also walk alot...otc is so far away.

but thanks to my exposure at admiralty, i really appreciated how neat, busy and organised my store was. but with that comes heavy responsibility. i have to take care of diagnostics, eye, otc, surgicals, homecare, bascially everything medically related except for vitamins. i haven't even got used to my pharmacy...need more time at my own store....why aren't they doing it. now i know chinatown point better....gosh.

oh, and i noticed that our darker counterparts always come for nizoral shampoo for dandruff, and the even darker counterparts always come for Colimix for gas. Its so common sense right...given their lifestyle. And the best part... are the new race: Chinese Chinese. they look for weird chinese medx in a western med store. and they doubt the recommendations i give...e.g. Rhinathiol promethazine is the most sought after medicine among locals. doctors give them that most of the time and they dig it. but HSA says not recommended for below 5yrs old. but doctors still give give give. pharmacist always try hard to recommend a more accurate remedy. So i recommended it to the chinese, and she asked me, "is it really effective?"

i fainted on the spot. Someone actually rejected Rhinathiol Promethazine!!!