RUNNING a busy pharmacy can suck up all your time.
There are a lot of moving parts that need to be kept going, and it's easy to be so wrapped up in your work that you forgot to inform others of what to expect.
Just ask 2019 University of Technology Sydney/AstraZeneca Innovative Pharmacist of the Year Award winner, Brad Butt, of Cooleman Court Pharmacy, Weston, ACT.
In 2012 the busy father of two was setting up his award-winning Men's Health Down Under program for patients with urological conditions, while at the same time managing his pharmacy.
As part of his efforts to provide the equipment his patients required, Butt had organised for a shipment of somewhat esoteric specialist devices to be delivered to his home.
"I knew they were coming, but I hadn't told my wife," he told enraptured attendees at the UTS Pharmacy Gala Dinner last week.
"She got a knock on the door - the three-year-old is in her arms and the one-year-old's in the cot trying to sleep and the gentleman says, 'sign here, I've a delivery for you', she asks 'what is it?'
"He says, 'haven't the foggiest' and he proceeded to carry up half a dozen boxes that are clearly marked 'VACUUM ERECTION DEVICE'.
"You could well imagine I had a phone call within five minutes asking 'what are you doing?'"
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