Last time I visited the doctor to have prescription updated  he said âyou wonât thank me if you have a strokeâ,   I said I didnât suppose I would and walked out, now Iâm buying all my medication privately, have I mentioned before I have no time for the NHS.  No wonder with their attitude to patients .Â
I'm not sure self diagnosis and medication is going to be helpful .
I donât self diagnose, I know whatâs wrong, Â I know what the prescribe, Â the NHS provide a very cheap useless version I buy the good stuff that they wonât supply.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
@debs64 I hope you're exaggerating for effect. If you really did as you said, I think you are very unwise to put it on here.
I used to have a small stall selling newspapers one day a week. I opened very early - before 6am as a rule, and I was very conscious that some of the earliest customers, often old gentlemen walking their dogs, were popping in more for a chat than for a paper. As a teenager, it taught me a lot about altering one's demeanour depending on who you're talking to. Some people wanted someone to listen while they complained about the world, others just a friendly smile and some wanted a genuine conversation about the news in the paper.Â
Selling stuff has become mechanised (eg Microsoft updates). The personal touch counts for a great deal even now.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
be to be totally honest we would ask a few questions if someone was buying that drug and as the customer was buying for someone else and clearly had no idea what it was for or even what it actually was (tablets, cream or liquid) I wouldnât have been able to sell it anyway but I was pleased that he went away empty handed after his insults.Â
22 eevil weevils tonight. A new personal best. Although a new personal worst at the same time The place is crawling with them and I bet I could find the same number again if I didn't have to do vital things like sleep.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@Hexagon P medicines such as Night Nurse are only sold at the Pharmacists discretion. This is often delegated to a trained Health Care Assistant provided certain questions are answered satisfactorily.  I am one of those disagreeable people who used to refuse a sale if it was not in the patients best interests. In at least one case, it saved someones life.  Refusing sale of addictive medicines to "regulars" often led to verbal abuse and threats. One of the reasons I retired early.
We have a miserable old git who once complained to head office because someone greeted him at the till with " Good morning ,how are you?" He said it was none of anyone's business how he was. The joys of retail.
22 eevil weevils tonight. A new personal best. Although a new personal worst at the same time The place is crawling with them and I bet I could find the same number again if I didn't have to do vital things like sleep.
Wouldnât it be better in the long run to invest in some nematodes.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
@fidgetbones quite right we have one customer always buying co-codamol for someone else even pretending to be on the phone to them as he approached the counter as he himself had 112 a month on prescription. When I challenged him he was extremely abusive. Most of our customers are lovely and we honestly go out of our way to help them but that young man wanting phenergan was so rude and P medicines are pharmacy only for a reason. It would have been irresponsible to sell them to him. It was also very satisfying to say no.Â
Quite right @debs64. Ignore these negative comments. Retail of any kind [as @Hostafan1 indicates] is often a thankless task, as I know only too well, and I was never selling anything that could do potential harm.  Thankfully, there are always the decent customers who make up for itÂ
I've just done exactly as @Lyn says @wild edges. I don't have anything like the problem you have, but it's soul destroying to have that big an infestation, and Ithink you're fighting a losing battle.Â
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I used to have a small stall selling newspapers one day a week. I opened very early - before 6am as a rule, and I was very conscious that some of the earliest customers, often old gentlemen walking their dogs, were popping in more for a chat than for a paper. As a teenager, it taught me a lot about altering one's demeanour depending on who you're talking to. Some people wanted someone to listen while they complained about the world, others just a friendly smile and some wanted a genuine conversation about the news in the paper.Â
Selling stuff has become mechanised (eg Microsoft updates). The personal touch counts for a great deal even now.
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
be to be totally honest we would ask a few questions if someone was buying that drug and as the customer was buying for someone else and clearly had no idea what it was for or even what it actually was (tablets, cream or liquid) I wouldnât have been able to sell it anyway but I was pleased that he went away empty handed after his insults.Â
He said it was none of anyone's business how he was.
The joys of retail.
I've just done exactly as @Lyn says @wild edges. I don't have anything like the problem you have, but it's soul destroying to have that big an infestation, and Ithink you're fighting a losing battle.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...