A pharmacist ought not be a celebrity. But in a small town near where I once lived—a two pharmacy, two traffic signal town, in fact—there is a pharmacist who fancies himself a local celebrity. To me, that is highly annoying for reasons that I have difficulty focusing upon.
A pharmacist should be a private, behind-the-scenes kind of person. He is privy to the whole town’s medical secrets. He knows who takes what drug, and he knows why. He knows who has gout, who has cancer, who has trouble peeing, and who is mentally unstable. He knows who’s taking which erectile dysfunction medication. He knows everything.
Yet this particular pill pusher had become a quasi-big shot, a name everyone knew, a big fish in the proverbial small pond. He was active in lots of local activities, like a sports hero with time to kill or a high-profile criminal defendant with court-ordered community service. He shows up everywhere, smiling, pretending to recognize folks, saying “good to seeya, good to seeya.”
Why would a guy like this go to pharmacy college anyway? Shy people study pharmacology, not public personalities. The whole situation smacked of irregularity. I didn’t like it one bit but I felt guilty not liking it because I could never pin down the true basis for my discomfiture. Perhaps it was fear that I’d run into this celebrity pharmacist at some public function and he’d ask me in front of strangers, “Is that Flomax still working for you?”
The coach of the local high school football team should be this high profile, not the guy behind the counter at the drug store. Celebrity pharmacist just sounds like an oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp or bureaucratic intelligence. I had such trouble over this that I switched pharmacies.
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