The Torture of A 2nd Year Pharmacy Student

i just realized how little i talk about my pharmacy course. yes it is not a fun course for sure and i have to admit that. we, the pharmers were deprived from sleep for the past two weeks continuously due to exams and a ridiculous lab report that worth 25% of the whole course. and there might be a possibility that i just blew two of them away.

as for me, i am a heavy sleeper. unfortunately, for this whole week i had been sleeping at 1am and waking up at 5am to finish the lab report. well, that's not so bad and pretty normal for everyone out there but definitely not for me.. i need lots lots of sleep to re-energize myself and 4 hours of sleep is such a no-no. pay back sleep is what i desperately need now. even worse, my housemate did not slept at all for the whole two days! can u imagine that she was glued to her table, typing and reading from the moment i went to bed till the moment i was awake. and now she can't even sleep at all, having insomnia i presumed and was forced to take sleeping tablets to make her sleep. this is crazy.berserk. and the worst part....

the amount of drugs we have to memorize including their mechanism of actions and side effects are driving us crazy. perhaps it is just my uni that is driving us crazy for i did not hear anyone else from other unis complaining. anyhow, for goodness sake, stop identifying new diseases and producing new drugs. you are torturing us.

pilocarpine, betanachol, carbachol, atropine, hysocine, pirenzipine, hexamethonium, trimetaphan, hemicholinum, vesamicol, botulinus toxin a, neostigime, physostigime, organophosphates, tubucurrarine, suxamethonium, adrenaline, noradrenaline, phenylephrine, dobutamine, salbultamol, phenoxybenzamine, phenyltamine, prazosin, doxazosin, tamsulosin, propanolol, atenolol, cardevilol, methyltyrosine, carbidopa, guanethidine, reserpine, selegiline, tricyclic anti-depressant, roboxetine, amphetamine, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, clonidine, diphenydramine, promethazine, hydroxyzine, cemetrizine (zyrtec), loratidine (claritine), desloratidine (clarinex), fexofenadine (telfast), aspirin, difulsinal, indomethacin, ibuprofen, naproxen, celecoxib, etrocoxib, paracetamol, ergotamine, triptans, allopurinol, cromolyn sodium, omazulimab, morphine, heroine, codeine, oxycodone, penthidine, methadone, buprenorphine, pentazocine, burphanol, naloxene, naltroxene, laxatives, bromohexine, guaiphenesin......................

all the drugs that we learnt in two months.and guess what i just wrote 77 drug names without referring to any books. fresh from this small little brain of mine and yet i still flung my exams. =(
if that's just what we learned in two months, how much more do we have to learn in another 3 more years?? could our brain capacity ever match to it? and the worst of all, we learned so much and yet the pharmacists are not recognized by the community. it sucks for sure.

and my advise for people out there, don't become a pharmacist. though i enjoy what i learn, the workload and the amount of facts that we have to memorize at times are totally unbearable. the only fun part of this course if when you are formulating an emulsion, suspension, solutions or ointment etc. and if you think history subject is hard to handle back in high school, don't even think of coming into the pharmacy industry. well, that's my view for now and it might change in months or years to come. and i might even be the happiest pharmacist perhaps in 2012!