Dispensary Corner 20 Feb 14
February 20, 2014
Medicine misadventure?
A US pharmacy error is making
the headlines after the pharmacist
mistakenly dispensed the wrong
medicine and then came up with
a lame excuse for the mistake.
A woman visited the Walgreens
pharmacy in the small town
of Surprise, Arizona, after
being prescribed a number of
medications to help with an ear
infection and a rash.
After a couple of days of taking
the drugs she noticed that her
condition was worsening, and
then received a call from the
pharmacy to warn that she’d been
given blood pressure medication
instead of antihistamines.
According to the woman, the
caller said “Well, we probably
couldn’t read the doctor’s
handwriting.
“Then I said, ‘Well, I know
that’s not possible because the
prescription was printed out.
“She kind of paused and said,
‘Well, you know they both begin
with H.’”
A spokesperson for the
pharmacy chain said it was
reviewing the incident “and
will work to prevent it from
happening again”.
Travellers wanting to really get
an understanding of the human
body are being welcomed to a
hotel in Belgium which has been
designed to resemble a gigantic
intestinal tract.
Appropriately named the
Hotel CasAnus, the property has
been created by Dutch designer
Joep van Lieshout, who said it’s
a “refreshing, unpretentious
place to look at art and a subtle
criticism of the art world”.
There’s only one bedroom, with
the property starting with a foot
at one end and finishing with a lifesized
replica of an human anus.
There’s a double bed, shower
and naturally a toilet, with
the UK’s Telegraph newspaper
reporting that it “hosts one
couple per month on average” at
a cost of about $200 a night.
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