That's a P .. for Poy.

You know that joke that says "Be nice to pharmacists, we can kill you with one mistake?"
No?? hahaha, that's a shame.

Anyways.
In case you haven't noticed, medicine has funny names.
Pharmaceutical companies just can't give medication a normal name. It has to sound like some sort of a skin infection, like weird Latin taxonomy. But even simple names that have grown on all of us like Abimol and Flagyl still pose a difficulty in pronunciation for many people.
Imagine the daily dilemma that faces pharmacists in trying to differentiate between a P and a B, especially over the phone!!

Forget the P and the B.

Just trying to get someone to pronounce the name of a medicine - P and B less - correctly is almost a miracle. It's like " Hey! Aren't you the pharmacist? You figure it out!" .. which is sort of the same approach all those snobby doctors use when writing prescriptions. They find it amusing to have us suffer as we squint and glare and hyperventilate trying to figure out what in the world is written.
Like we don't suffer enough.

The most fascinating part about all this, is how the patients try to convince us - no matter how many graves we swear on - that the medicine they just asked for, with that specific pronunciation, exists! If you don't know it, then it's you - the pharmacist's - fault. Yes. Uhuh. Yep. Without a shadow of a doubt. It is your fault and you are the one mistaken.

Aren't you always wrong?

God.
This profession is never paying off.