Some antibiotics, like amoxicillin, are shipped to the pharmacy as a dehydrated powder. They do this because it’s cheaper to ship and has a longer shelf life as a powder. When we get a script for one of these drugs we need to add a predetermined amount of water to the bottle to rehydrate the powder. At the pharmacy this week we received a script for one of these drugs and I was asked to measure out the correct volume. Upon handing the graduated cylinder to the pharmacist I was told that it was off by about HALF a milliliter. I was at a loss for words! Damm those super accurate, plastic, 100mL, dollar store graduated cylinders! I guess I don’t know how to read a meniscus anymore...right. Too funny.
Monday, January 21, 2008
What's a meniscus
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Remember when I pretended to not remember what a meniscus was?!
What will I do without my lab buddy!
I guess its not like rounding up with currency . . . bring back the penny to Australia or Perth at the very least.
Half a milliliter? -- how could they even tell!?
Did you tell him that his face is only 19 - 30 inches from a serious fistful of Canadian pain?
(I figure that your hands were at your side when he told you this, i suppose you could substitute other body parts, but i felt at the time that the 'fist' would be most effective in this case.. to each their own. )
DONGS!
"Did you tell him that his face is only 19 - 30 inches from a serious fistful of Canadian pain?"
^ too funny!
"Did you tell him that his face is only 19 - 30 inches from a serious fistful of Canadian pain?"
^ too funny!
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