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Medical Forum / General / Pharmacy / April 2006Pharmacists who may work in a prison system clinic?
What is your daily routine? Are you doing hands on clinical practice? What are the perks for this setting vs retail/hospital/other clinical position? Thanks in advance > What is your daily routine? Are you doing hands on clinical practice? > What are the perks for this setting vs retail/hospital/other clinical > position? > > Thanks in advance If the customers get out of line, are boisterous or obnoxious, or giving you a hard time about their insurance, just get a guard to shoot them. Sorry, couldn't resist. >> What is your daily routine? Are you doing hands on clinical practice? >> What are the perks for this setting vs retail/hospital/other clinical [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >You mean Pharmacists don't carry guns at your prison? In ~1980, before I was involved in pharmacy, I applied for a job in a prison. For the interview, I was led through the "big house" to the area I might work in. I was rather agog as we walked through this maximum security facility, among the toughest cons in my state; quite an experience for a young man. I remember one thing that surprised me at the time, but it makes perfect sense: I never once saw a gun or a weapon. The guards controlled the prison with nothing more than walkie-talkies and a locked gate to keep the inmates in. (I didn't get the job.) > In ~1980, before I was involved in pharmacy, I applied for a job in a > prison. For the interview, I was led through the "big house" to the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > (I didn't get the job.) The British used to not allow their police to have firearms. If they needed help, they would blow the police whistle and a civilian would come and shoot the criminal, if necessary. If the guards had handguns, then some inmates would find a way to get one. Wasn't it in Atlanta, GA and in Alabama where criminals disarmed a police officer in a court room and police station and then proceeded to kill a few people with the gun? The wisdom of issuing Concealed Weapons Licenses (CCW) is a criminal never knows who might be armed. However unless you read gun literature you usually don't hear about cases where a gun prevented a criminal killing someone or resulted in an arrest. I used to work in a hospital that gave pharmacy services to the local prison. The pharmacist that used to do this job went each morning, and was locked in the dispensary for 3-4 hours to sort out dispensing, ordering stock etc. When he was finished he was let out and came back to the hospital. The police here still don't carry guns as routine (UK). We have special armed police squads who are called in when guns are involved, but your average police officer does not have one. The police at airports are usually armed. I think in the days when they had whistles they used them to attract other officers, not to get a British citizen to shoot someone. Most people here have never even seen a gun, and the only people I have ever heard of owing guns are farmers, for killing vermin etc. If you are caught here with a gun in your possesssion I think it's up to five years in jail. Obviously some criminals have guns, but the percentage of gun crime compared to all crime is very low. Obviously it still happens which is why we have specially trained armed police. As far as I am aware the same goes for prison officers. I don't think prison officers carry guns, but again can call in special armed officers if required. When the guy who did the prison retired the head pharmacist wanted me to do the prison job, but I didn't really fancy going to a prison by myself, being locked in etc. Elaine www.pharmacy-forum.co.uk The UK Forum for all things Pharmacy |
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