New Year...welcome to OPD

started my new year at a new department...the glamorous Outpatient Department (OPD)...
this is where the public perceived as "the" pharmacy in a hospital...and all the pharmacists must be working in here...of course we have a few more departments and services...nevermind...
this is where the patients get their medicines before they go home...they could be discharged from the ward, patients from the clinics or patients taking their supply of medications for chronic diseases (Hypertension, diabetes, etc, need to take lifelong medicines)...

7.50am...before the OPD open...before i even step into the OPD...i was greeted by the long queue...all along the corridor...wow...
when i entered the OPD...in addition to the long queue...the benches in the waiting area were all filled up...in fact the whole OPD was filled with waiting human beings...wow!!!

got in and work...newbie filling presriptions...bla bla bla...in a zappp...5pm...time has never moved so fast since i started working...

because of me lar...my first day...everything don't know...have to think slowly...ask here ask there...slowing everybody down...clogging up the counter...

5pm...time to go...but the stack of prescriptions to be filled and dispensed was still an inch thick...gotta stay back...luckily by 5.30pm...most of the counters also finished their job...fellow PRPs coming over to help...thanks very much girls...(yep...most of my colleagues are girls)...we finished just in time...6pm...

once got home...after bath and all...once sit down...resting my legs...suddenly one thing came to mind...a beer...
after a day of stress and hard work...i do need some beer...ice cold beer...

well...this may not be the most interesting department...but it certainly is the most challenging of all...and fun...and i'll spend another 2 months here...
i shall work harder...and faster...and more importantly more careful for the sake of the patients and their patience...

well...come...to...OPD...