What if the patient is ordered a small dose like Morphine 1mg qwhatever. What is that, that 0.15mg of hydromorphone thereabouts? And those come in the 1mg/ml caverjects...could you imagine a nurse trying to inject 0.15mL with those things.
My first pharmacist job, back in the mid 1990s, was at a mail order facility, and we had a pharmacist who had a desk job and was about 95% bald, and his head would turn red every time he heard the word "Caverject." People would walk by his cubicle and say "Caverject" just to watch his head turn red, and it never stopped being funny.
One day, an employee on maternity leave brought in her new baby, and someone said, "Bet you can't wait for your daughters to bring home one of those!"
His daughters were 14 and 15 at the time, and he said, "My daughters will never get pregnant!"
(famous last words, right?)
I told him, "Oh, that's not true. Someday, you'll want your daughters to get pregnant!" You should have seen the look on his face - he really couldn't wrap his head around that. I pointed out that his daughters would eventually be adults, finished with school, married, etc. and he would have to bite his tongue every time he saw them because it's just not good manners to ask your kids when they're going to give you grandchildren.
"And what if they're pregnant at the same time, and they get out the tape measure and see who has the biggest stomach......"
I was back in that city a few weeks ago and saw the engagement announcement for one of his daughters in the newspaper. She's now a physical therapist.
