Bank Holidays

I don't like Bank Holidays even when I do not have to go to work. The Doctors' surgery is closed, the pharmacy where I work is closed, and all the patients panic. Hundreds of patients who are just slightly off-colour troop to see the doctor with their collection of minor ailments. The same happens before every other Bank Holiday too. Yes, of course most of these patients could self-medicate, but they wouldn't want to risk being ill over Easter, would they? Far better to be ill when you should be at work.....that seems to be the general theory.

After the surgery the next stop is me. Normally sensible people decide to stockpile an extra supply of their medication- "just in case" and decide to take two month's worth of their repeat medication. I do not work in a hugely busy pharmacy, but we were still getting through forty or fifty boxes of Metformin, Ramipril, etc. by the tail-end of the week. I am closed for two days and there really is no need for patients to prepare for Armageddon.