Human Condition Research Paper

I was working my usual late shift on a Thursday night at Discharge Pharmacy at Kaiser San Jose. That night was unusually busy and were full of problems. We were short staffed and the line full of patients wasn’t stop forming. I tried to calm myself down because being panic won’t help me at all. Patients after patients were complaining about the wait time, and upset that their medications were not ready. As the night proceed, I was helping this female patient. She was yelling and blaming us for not having her medications transfer. She started to cry and apologized for yelling at me and explained how important the medications to her. She was a kidney transplant patient, and she was afraid to miss her dose of medications of the night. I tried to get her medications ready fast so she can be on her way home to rest. …show more content…
Just when I think I have known everything about human condition, I was introduced with another. Working in pharmacy, I get to work directly with patients and that means seeing the different views of the human nature. When helping patients, I always remind myself to always consider that patients might be under stress or their current health conditions can be an important factor. Beside all the anger and frustration, occasionally I can see how thankful the patients are. They are thankful for whatever we have done even when they don’t say