Is there such a thing as an overpaid pharmacist? In the world of today when everyone is agitating for higher pay commensurate with the sacrifices made to train and continues practicing? But what about those of us who not only hate their work, but do not work at all? What about those of us who find a reason not to do what they were trained to do every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year until retirement do we part? What about whose only source of continuous medical education (or is it continuous professional development) are our local dailies? What about those who make technical appearances, go for trainings that do not benefit them or their institutions? What about those who can not only not carry out any reforms, but do not have the vaguest idea of what could constitute reforms in pharmacy?
It does not matter to me how little you earn, so long as you do not deserve it, you are overpaid. There are those pharmacist who want to be seen doing something, and there are those who actually do something, yet there are those who don’t care about doing anything at all. It is the last category who I think are grossly overpaid, while the first two are underpaid. It is only that the very first will have much more difficulties, justifying for more pay.
I have a few things I want to suggest that may help you spot, and eventually weed out these overpaid pharmacists. They have no clear gender predisposition for these breed of pharmacists, they just seem to be just as randomly distributed, as it is statistically possible. It is only that you just spot one as soon as you meet them. All you need is a five-minute chat, and you will know if a loser or somebody who can take our profession places has joined you.
So here are the red flags that could help signal the presence of the overpaid pharmacist:
• They always look for something to divert their attention from their main activity.
One such a big distraction is the newspaper, one thing many workers especially civil servants are paid to read.
• Need to carry out a ‘bank transaction’ just minutes after reporting to work
• The Sudoku, Crossword and Codeword geek
• Monday afternoon text messages to explain a Monday morning problem
• Locum is your first topic of their discussion on his(her) first arrival
• It takes two months or longer to 'look for a house'
• Still not conversant with the systems after more than one year in employment
• Non-committal on more opportunities to prove worth as a pharmacist
• All the workmates that he knows can be counted with the fingers of one hand
• Highly theoretical but very lethargic when it comes to putting the theory into practice
• He wants to be the Chief Pharmacist because ‘this dispensing can take me nowhere’ making you wonder why he wants to supervise something that take people nowhere
• Loves off-site training but not the service opportunities that come after it
• Wants to retire in civil service, if a public servant
Remember that in most cases, the pharmacist must show at least 5 of above tendencies to be firmly in the overpaid bracket. I'm saying that because I know of a few 'underpaid pharmacists' who would like to exercise their brain power (wordpower) with one or two crosswords a day. They may even take it further to a game of scrabble just to prove a point that they are indeed still much smarter than a 5th grader!
2 comments:
Pharmacists think too much of themselves. Some of them are so arrogant that they think they are smarter and better educated than doctors. People who are intelligent and competent usually don't speak of themselves in that manner. They usually just go about their business and leave others to their own - rather than run down doctors to their patients, friends and family. Most of what they know they just memorized! Doctors actually have to "problem solve" rather than recall what they've memorized or have in their manuals with regard to contradictions and doses. There are many other professions where mistakes are deadly. What about your mechanic? The guy who connected the gas line to your house? People operating cranes, mining equipment or working on pipelines? What about air traffic controllers? If you think about it, there are many people we rely on for our safety to make no mistakes. I think that the big difference is that pharmacists have memorized much more information than other people.
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