Experiencing is one of best way to learn.....I am a lucky person as I was granted the chance to experience some extraordinary event…
Unlike the doctor in Malaysia, doctors in Taiwan had limited dispensing right – only in emergency or in secluded area where pharmacist is limited. Every clinic had to hire a pharmacist to dispense medicine and some of the doctors just opened up a pharmacy next door to his clinic….
However serving in the specialist clinic, I had the privileges to exercise my dispensing right..
The govt. clinic I am serving now had only 1 pharmacist and she had to follow the mobile medical unit to the mountain area from time to time. Unlike the govt. clinic in Malaysia, the govt clinic here serves as the local health office and it is allocated with lots of staff managing the health matter. The clinic had to cut down an admin staff to vacant for the pharmacist. The job left over would be distributed among other admin staff and the govt. clinic is reluctant to let go another staff. Thence most of the time, I had to dispense the drugs. Playing with the dispensing machine is some fun and luckily the clinic is not crowded as I could still run between the pharmacy and the clinic and not keeping my patient from waiting too long.
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