I do relief pharmacy work and I come into contact with a parade of tragedy called "health care."
Absurdities of health care include its cost, misallocations of labor and capital, dearth of technology widely available in other economic sectors, legislation that panders to BigPharma at the expense of safety, snail paced advancements from lab to journal to practice, sequestrations and sales of health information and acutely: public apathy and fantasy.

As I work in different venues I am driven to grab a prescription pad and scribble an angry little note regarding how some process or adverse effect might be improved or ameliorated.  Coworkers imagine I am writing all kinds of things in the "care culture" where we work under multiple surveillance cameras and a missing dollar or tablet will go down on a permanent employment record.  But my notes have ended up in a smallish shopping bag next to my hamper.  And now the bag is filling up and it is time to share my scribbles on prescriptions in hopes of raising awareness and making some desperately needed improvements.

Welcome to Prescription Rant--  ℞ant

Please contribute and share and let problems and solutions be put in the open.  Let it be known that we can do a whole lot better.