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Archive for Thursday, December 29, 2011

Thor’s Day Trials & Tribulations

pill pushingPharmacists used to count pills out by hand and dispense them in a bottle with a simple cap until that became unsafe. Then pharmacists counted pills on the counter and dispensed them in a bottle with a “child proof” cap until that became unsafe. Now pharmacists slap a label on a prepackaged carton filled with double-blister wrapped, scalloped indvidual pill nests impervious to shock, awe, nuclear explosion, and fingernails.

Not only have we quadrupled the waste stream, I have to work eight times longer to get the @#$%^ things open.

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