Saturday, December 22, 2007

Medical and Pharmacy Myth

According to British Medical Journal, below are the myths in medical field

1) People should drink at least eight glasses of water a day
2)We use only 10% of our brains
3)Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death
4)Shaving hair causes it to grow back faster, darker, or coarser
5)Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight
6)Eating turkey makes people especially drowsy
7)Mobile phones create considerable electromagnetic interference in hospitals.

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According to pharmalogik, below are the myths in pharmacy field

1)Dr study more about drugs than pharmacist

2) Pharmacist in Malaysia dont need to serve the government for the total of 4 years before they can work elsewhere.

3) The working hours of a typical owner of community pharmacy is not 12 hours a day 6 days a week.

4) All doctors know how to perform complex calculation for therapeutic drug monitoring.

5) Pharmacist no need to go for Continue Medical Education every year

6) Pharmacist is richer than the Dr

7) Pharmacy profit margin > 25%

8) All medications are poison

9) Pharmacist not suppose to get their dispensing right

10) Pharmacist also can be called Farmist, Blood sucker, Vampire, Hantu, Mr. Discount, or Dr. They cannot be called pharmacist, Big Boss, Tau Keh, or Leng Cai. Ha haahaa......

2 comments:

Ted said...

Did somebody call for my good fren hantu?

Pang Wee Siang said...

Don't really care wht they call me, as long as got a lot of money, hahahaha