Pharmacy Daily | Dispensary Corner 20 May 14

SLOW-MO getaway. Sick of working long hours in the pharmacy? If you decide to make a break for it, perhaps it’s wise to get a lift if you can’t go faster than a tortoise. Spike, the 17 year-old 80-pound pet tortoise, housed in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, found the gate left open one day but his attempt to escape to far flung lands only got him about 800 metres from home. Yahoo! News reports that the lumbering giant was returned to its relieved owners by Animal Control. READ the label carefully. Pharmacists are known for their very high attention to detail around labelling of products. University of Findlay recently contracted a supplier to fertilise their 72 acres of lawn gracing their Ohio campus, only to have around 54 acres die from the weedkiller that was accidentally used instead. According to the local Findlay Courier the label-reading mistake happened in the last week of April and will take several weeks to reseed and re-sod the affected areas. PAMPERED contented cows. Most of us take for granted the privilege of sleeping on a mattress, regular bathing, living with airconditioning and automatic lighting, but not so many have occasional pedicures or free massages when we want them - but then, most of us aren’t milking cows in poverty-ridden Bosnia. Complete with relaxing music played during milking, the life of a cow in Jusuf Arifagic’s dairy farm is pure bovine luxury. According to iOL News, Arifagic has a vision for the dairy industry in the more temperate climate of Bosnia to overtake that of Norway. “Pampered cows give five litres more of milk a day,” claimed the visionary, adding they are healthier as well, according to the local vet.

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