Not Sure If This Was False Advertising Or Not.....

Anyone here remember the bygone days of your friendly corner druggist diligently grinding away with his mortar and pestle, compounding the exact prescription written just for you? Probably not, as the only places where that kind of thing happens these days are independent stores whose owners have found the only way to stay in business is to play to the more-money-than-brains demographic. Friend of mine has one of these stores. They're a rip off, but that's not the subject of this post. My point here is that in most modern pharmacies, the mortar, if anyone knows where it is, is probably under 2 inches of dust under the bathroom sink. The only compounding I've done in years is the occasional Rx for something called "magic mouthwash," used to soothe your oral type parts when they're irritated. Compounds are a major pain in the ass to enter into our computer, as you have to create a new product from scratch every single time, because the electronic wizard doesn't have the ability to remember a simple fucking recipe. This means you have to give it a name. I'll usually try and list as much of the ingredients as I can in the space I have , something like "Diphen/Mylant/Lidoc 1:1:1", so when you show up in the emergency room after having shoved some up your ass because you decided what you really needed was an enema, the Doc will have some idea what he's dealing with if you were smart enough to bring in the bottle. (You may laugh, but I would bet my next paycheck someone, somewhere has tried the enema thing) That's just me though, you can put any name you want on the label, and most pharmacists will just put something like "magic mouthwash recipe #3" Sometimes though my coworkers can get a little lazy....as evidenced yesterday when I was going through someone's profile and saw they had been given a prescription of ........"magic" The label actually said to use a teaspoonful of magic four times a day as needed for pain.

I wonder what the customer did with their magic. Did they become invisible? Gain the power to fly? Do like Endora on Bewitched and turn their son-in-law into a braying donkey? One of those questions that will never be answered I suppose, but the magic was refilled 2 times, and they'll need a doctors authorization to get any more.