Overview: For over twenty years, Drugmonkey has been fighting the battles that a typical pharmacist in retails fights everyday: customers whom are impatient, ignorant, and just plain dumb. This behind the scenes look of pharmacy isn't limited to just the retail: he exposes all the nasty tricks that your insurance company and Big Pharma are playing on you. Sprinkled in with some stories about politics and many entries about a typical day in the drug room.
The Writing and Words: Drugmonkey does a great job of writing. The beginning of the book, the chapters sag-way into each other, all related and informative as they are amusing. Eventually, the chapters start to stand on their own, every so often still connecting to each other. For someone who isn't a "trained writer", Drugmonkey does an amazing job of story telling and keeping it informative and relevant. The chapters are usually very short and to the point. Not all are true stories and are not always pharmacy related.
Drugmonkey writes with passion of a pharmacist that has been in the game too long and has seen and heard things that need exposed. He is an unbiased liberal and openly calls people out for fucking the working man and the poor. His satire is well written as satire is hard to write, (the chapters about his "Time as a Repiblican" are the ones in specific). He writes in a way that even if you don't work in pharmacy or have no knowledge about it, it's explained well and teachable.
My Opinion: Okay, so I've been following Drugmonkey ever since he was The Drug Nazi. I've been working in pharmacy for close to ten years myself. So, this book was an exciting thing for me to read. And I've read it three times since I've had it. I have bought additional copies and given them to people that I know are going into pharmacy school because they NEED to know what he is exposing. This book isn't just beneficial to pharmacy people, but to everyone. You need to know the tricks drug manufactures are playing on you. You need to know how your insurance company is fucking you over time and time again. And, most importantly, you need to know how to act when dropping off/picking up a prescription at a pharmacy.
Not gonna lie: he also gave me the push on the fence on whether I was a liberal or a republican. There are somethings I wish he had put into this book that are up on his blog, but I didn't edit the book. The last chapters, especially the very last one, will pack a punch. It's a big fuck you to the pro life people and if you're passionate about anti-abortion, do not read the last of the book. But it's something that women need to read, in my opinion. This is, by far, my top five favorite books. I hope everyone reads it and starts to see the health care revolution that needs to happen.
And the answer to the title of the book: Probably you.
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