Pharmacist Career Information : Pharmacist's Hardest Day

Pharmacists sometimes have difficult days which, in this case, involved a violent and threatening customer who wanted medication that this particular professional was not able to sell him. Listen to the story told by this experienced pharmacist about her hardest day and learn some tips on how to handle it in this free video.

Expert: Kate James
Bio: Kate James is the principal pharmacist at Broadway Apothecary. She graduated from Oregon State Universitys College of Pharmacy.
Filmmaker: max koetter

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• pharmacists
• drugs
• prescription drugs
• drug store
• medicine
• sick
• disease
• medication
• health
• health professional
• side effects

[hesellsmystuff]

Exactly - Drug addled / addicted lunatics who actually will steal - commit violence, etc... to get their "controlled substances".

The downside of the business a Pharmacist is in - distributing narcotics to the general public - which includes "abusers" of Drugs.

[bboydjoe]

she looks like she would be calm in a threatening situation

[marlokf]

One person on one day? Sounds like an extremely easy day to me.

[Ma77hew]

I am working on becoming a pharmacist currently, and seeing something like this happen in the future would not worry me because I would be definitely conceal carrying a handgun on my person to defend myself from crazy people like this.

[nikkie23418]

wow...scary stuff. i guess i'm not working in retail.

[v33jae]

im just wondering ... how did her situation got fixed? did the customer ended up getting his medications?

[geor8219]

great...