You would only find something like this at Touro. This was one of those "Public Health" rotations. Yeah, I get the organization's mission is to educate the public and reduce the spread of HIV and other STDs but there are better ways to do this. 95% of the people who took the free condoms were either 65+ year old Puerto Rican-American men or junior high school kids.
I think every rotation I've been on, they've complained about my lateness. I'm never going to be inside the pharmacy ready to work at 9AM. NYC parking regulations generally have street cleaning done from 830AM-9AM, can't leave the car until 9AM or they ticket/tow you. I'm not going to park in a parking lot and shell out $30/day for parking when I can park on the street for $1 for every 2 hours. The preceptors who drove were fine with me being late once I explained this to them (sometimes I'd see them sitting in their car until 9AM also), but the subway/bus/bicycle peasants never understood this and would say some stupid **** like "not my problem, you'll just have to pay for parking in the lot, leave your car before 9AM and risk the ticket/tow, get here 1/2 hour early and drive around looking for parking where there is no street cleaning"
I prefer working in a hospital because I hate dealing with insurance companies. I hate the whole business aspect of pharmacy. Having to check every transaction to make sure we're getting paid enough. It's simpler, if it's on formulary, we give it out, if it's not we change it to something that is formulary. No tracking down docs or calling answering services to reach the docs, change it yourself and the doc will be informed the next time they check in on the patient. If they disagree with your decision, they have to make a case to get the nonformulary product and the case needs to be presented to the Director of Pharmacy and the Chief of Medicine.
