Baby sitter or not..open discussion
Taking the lead from Eric, Pharmacist. I am opening up for a discussion. I recently commented on another pharmacist blog and was given a bit of a chastise for referring to what I do for some customers as “babysitting”. He found that to be a “distasteful” assessment and that since I chose pharmacy, I really shouldn’t complain.
I countered back that I do indeed have to babysit a certain patient base because they refuse or are unwilling to care for themselves and want me ( or whomever is there) to carry their load month after month.. hmmm, perhaps “sherpa” would be a better term…
Since many of you are pharmacists, how about telling me about what you think of what we do. Where does “babysitting ” come into your workplace? I could write for hours about daily taking care of customer’s issues that were really never my job to do, but I do them time and time again..and the only time I get to complain about it is here…cuz its my blog and I own it!
If you dont think “babysit” is an appropriate term, offer me a better one! Dictionary.com has one defintion of babysit as: to take watchful responsibility for; tend:
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