2023-07-13 20:00:55
According to Cofepris, the clinics attached to pharmacies already offer more daily consultations than the IMSS.
A patient who attended a consultation at Farmacias Similares created an embarrassing and hilarious moment for the doctor in charge.
One of the characteristics of this type of establishment is that they only offer general services but not specialty consultations.
A day inside any office is always unpredictable. Patients arrive all the time but you never know what can happen during the service. Even the characteristics of each person generate that the attention is always unique for each one. At the same time, there are cases that stand out from the rest and that is exactly what happened to a Similar Pharmacy doctor when offering a consultation.
Medical care at low prices
In the first instance, this chain is more than 25 years old and over time it has been consolidated in the country. The business started with the aim of offer generic drugs at cheaper prices than other pharmacies.
A short time later it expanded with the placement of medical offices next to each branch. The attention in each one is also quite cheap, although there are certain limitations.
Among the main ones are that only general and not specialty consultations are offered, and emergencies are not attended. Despite the above Similar pharmacies It has established itself as one of the largest businesses in Mexico and even already has a presence in other countries.
In fact, the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) ensures that pharmacies already offer more consultations per day than the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). With this you can appreciate the popularity of this model.
On the other hand, not everything is positive. This type of establishment is also frowned upon, especially among health professionals themselves. The main criticisms are low wages and working conditions. Most do not offer benefits or other gratuities to the doctors who work there.
The strangest consultation of a doctor from Farmacias Similares
The reality is that beyond personal opinion about pharmacy offices, within each one there are quite peculiar stories. From the reason that leads each patient to request care to her personal characteristics make them different from the rest.
With this in mind, the Dr Carlos Daniel, who just finished his degree, works in an office of this chain of pharmacies. Through his TikTok account, she posts videos about his personal and professional life.
In one of his publications he describes the strangest consultation that he has attended during his time at Farmacias Similares. An important point is that it does not offer personal details to take care of the patient’s confidentiality.
According to his testimony, it all started with a patient who arrived with a fever. The natural indication was to prescribe Paracetamol and the man accepted the indication but demanded that the medication be in a suppository.
The doctor’s immediate response was that this was not possible. The most common is that the consumption of this drug is in tablets or pills. In fact, the doctor mentions that he is not even sure that there is a presentation of Paracetamol suppository.
Even when reviewing the patient, the doctor did not identify any impediment for the medication not to be taken orally. For something so small, the man got so angry that he left the office and left the office.
According to the doctor of Similar Pharmacy, the consultation was terminated because in addition to the Paracetamol suppository, the patient also wanted the doctor to place it himself. At that moment, the doctor sensed that the intentions were actually other than health.
And in your case, what is the strangest request that a patient has made of you?
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