Sunday February 17, 2008
With such a late arrival, we are given the morning off and sleep in. We eat a buffet breakfast at the hotel's outdoor dining area, then tool around the hotel grounds. A private beach, a swimming pool, a 2nd tiny pool, a hut with wares for sale, plenty of deck chairs to relax in, ahhh. After lunch at the same outdoor dining area, the group is divided into two again: one goes to the hospital to set-up and inventory, one stays at the dining area to divvy up the drugs and sort them. From 1:00-5:00 pharmacy's little helpers count out 30 acetaminophen tablets out of 1000 count bottles and pre-label them in the dispensing container of choice: the Ziploc baggie. Ibuprofen, Cipro, Flagyl, Amoxicillin, Prenatal Vitamins, etc. are all pre-counted and labeled. The work is drudgery, but with about 20 folks helping, it's 4 hours of relative breeziness. Then me and the other two pharmacists inventory what we have and pack them up in suitcases based on disease state: cardiac, G.I., pain, antibiotics, etc.
The hospital crowd returns and we eat dinner, again at the outdoor dining area. The longest game of 9-ball occurs, lasting literally an hour. We suck. Afterward, a nightly ritual of Presidente beer, a bottle of Scotch, cigars, and conversation takes us to where the clock shows "a.m." We call it a night, awaiting our first day of work Monday morning.
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