Top 5 Reasons Residents Should NOT Be Allowed To Write Prescriptions

As any regular retail pharmacists knows when you see a prescription coming from the "teaching" hospital clinic you know to run. I primarily feel sorry for the unknowing victims, the patient. I have created a list of the top 5 reasons medical residents should not be allowed to write prescriptons.
1. Ambien comes in more strengths than just CR.
2. We (the world in general) don't know who you are and you are nothing with out
you're attending--print your name and your attending and your DEA where a normal
human could read it.
3. You still can't write Percocet and IBU on the same rx blank.
4. I know it can be extra tedious but you still need to sign the prescription before you sent
it off with the victim, I mean patient.
5. EPOCRATES, EPOCRATES, EPOCRATES--it's a FREE download to a palm that gives
all drug monographs to give the residents helpful information so we don't have to keep
calling about drugs/strengths that DO NOT exist.

Stupid, Stupid oh WHY!!?

Ok, sorry for the lack of postings or well even a profile, but I have to start somewhere. Being a Pharmacists for the Big Pharma Co. (sorry I borrowed that from the DrugMonkey who is one of my idols, sad but true) I have tons of crazy customers and stories that I must share with the world or risk coining the term "Going Pharmacy" some day.
So to get this thing going I was helping one of my techs field a call from one of our "special customers" who unfortunately is well, "difficult". He was simply trying to give her the correct spelling for Klor-Con. She was so confused that my tech put her on speaker phone so that I would know he wasn't lying about the sorry situation. It went something like this............
Yes...it's spelled k...
what?? is that capital or lower case?
It doesnt' matter-k
Can I use capital?
Yes that's fine-k-l
Wait is the "l" capital or lower case?
It doesn't matter.
Ok capital K-L?
Yes k-l-o-r c-
Ok let me check this capital K, captial L, capital O, capital R and c
Yes that's fine k-l-o-r c-a-oops I mean c-o-n
what? capital K, captial L, capital O, captial R, c-z-n
No, c-o-n
ok c-z-n-t (swear this is exactly what she repeated back to us!!!)
No, c-o-n
Ok, c-z-n-t
Finally, I told my tech just to say "Yes" to be done with this horribly sad and yet so funny phone call. Yes people if I had not heard this with my own ears I would not have believed it. The real treat is that 30 minutes later she called back and said that she thought it was suppose to be spelled k-l-o-r c-o-n. ?????? How that finally processed I will never know. I told her yes that was correct and she must have just misunderstood the tech on the phone (minor understatement).
Just a brief glimpse into part of my day and sole reason that I need my appletini's to get me thru.