Plan B Prevents Abortion

I saw this t-shirt while not doing anything at work today. I thought it was quite clever. The whole concept of the website/shirt company concept is pretty ingenius too.

Is it just me, or do you other pharmacy people have a hard time understanding how any business is capable of making much money? I think its because I have spent too much time around pharmacy figures and spreadsheets, and the fact that we (as a store and industry) just barely squeak by, but I have absolutely no faith in any business being able to make money. I realize that they do, I just can't wrap my otherwise large mind around it.

Except for PBMs and insurance companies. They just bend people over, take their money and rape the hell out of them. Thats a business plan that makes sense to me.

Stupid Patient of the Day

David Wells of the San Diego Padres

This man has just been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. Can you believe that? For the general public out there, thats the type of diabetes you get from being fat, lazy and eating too much sugar. For those of you that don't follow baseball, David Wells was the poster child for how not to live if you don't want to get diabetes. Now he is the poster child for lazy athletes and diabetics. He is Mr. Syndrome X.

It wasn't too long ago that Wells prided himself on drinking beer, eating hot dogs, getting drunk all the time (he claims he threw his no hitter with a wicked hang over) and smoking cigars. He did it because he was a bad ass. He knew it was bad for him, but he was tough and he wasn't going to let conventional wisdom and nutrition dictate his lifestyle. Instead, his diagnosis and misinformation will dictate everything.

"From the time I found out, I made changes. No more starches and sugar. No more rice, pasta, potatoes and white bread. No more fast food. I've cut out alcohol."

Yeah, good luck with that. You've prided yourself on your lifestyle, been living it for many years, and now you are going to just turn it off like a lightswitch. Have fun with that one big guy.

"Obviously, this is a concern," the left-hander told the newspaper. "But it's beatable. And I'm going to beat it."

Uh, no its not. You're stuck with it for, oh lets see, forever!

"This is a major lifestyle change. I don't want this going to Type 1 diabetes," Wells told the newspaper.

Yes it is a major lifestyle change, but Type 1 is not the natural progression of uncontrolled Type 2 diabetes. Plus, I wouldn't worry about it too much. I'd be suprised if you haven't been living as a diabetic for quite some time now. Dumbass.

"I want to be around for a while. If you don't take care of this, it can lead to some scary stuff ... like losing limbs. If anyone has this, it's a red flag, period.

Red flag for what? Dying? No numbnuts, getting fat, having more cholesterol than blood in your veins and eating as much as your portly self has been is a red flag. Diabetes the result of ignoring all those red flags.

"But if I follow the rules I've been given, there's no problem."

Well, thats true unless you pay attention to published studies and stats that say otherwise. Nevermind the fact that you are at higher risk for kidney problems, vision problems, depression, changes in lifestyle that fat people find enjoyable, decreased length and quality of life, hypertension, just to name a few. But hey, at least you don't have to worry about getting your penis hard, right?

Oh shit.

No problem my ass.

Now, what I find the funniest, is how much of a dipshit Wells' physician must feel like. Assuming the physician provided any disease conseling at all (probably not), s/he apparently didn't do a very good job of it, or doesn't know shit about diabetes. If I was a colleauge of this physician, I would be making fun of them and mocking them pretty much for the remaining tenure of their career. Time to work on your patient education skills.

Paging Dr. Stupid.