A lesson from an incident

It's a Monday evening and we drove all the way from 4th miles to central park to buy coughing medicine. Am having mild irritating cough since sunday night and thought of seeing the panel doctor across the road but unfortunately the clinic is cosed due to the Merdeka public holiday.

This XXX is the only pharmacy that operate in this holiday evevning and with no others better choice we walked in and ask for the dear pharmacist the medicine we are looking for. I always get the nurses to write down the medicine's name whenever the doctor prescript the medicines to me. So, I told the dear mr. pharmacist I want Nospan for irritating cough, but unfortunately Nospan is out of stock then I mentioned to him another cough syrup called Cough-en. He didn't respond to my request but asking what is our profession? Why did we so familiar with the medicine's name? Are you travel this recently? Do you have fever other than cough? He didn't even get the information from me and he gave me a mask and warn me to put on mask as he said I am a 99.9% H1N1 patient....WoW....all fo a sudden, all the dear customers and shopper run away from me and I am so gladful that darling still holding my hand tightly at that moment.

I did respond to him after couple seconds. First of all, I didnt travel this recently. I have no fever and flu at the moment. I am not a medicine profession but it's a need for us to remember the name of the medicines we took.

But he still insisted saying I am a 99.9% H1N1 patient. And he force(I used force becoz he didnt even give us a chance to buy other medicine like Tami-flu for Influenza A) us to buy a so called supplementary, Nutriferon. It's cost us RM6 for each small pack. We with no other choices again to pay the money and leave the pharmacy with the 4 packs of Nutriferon..

Nutriferon is not a medicine and it's a direct sales product. Well this is my first and last visit to this pharmacy. The pharmacist is using his professionalism to earn extra through selling the direct sales product.

As a conclusion from this incident, the direct sale agent will only be sucessful if he is a profession. I hardly being convinced by these bunch of hard people but this is the first time I bought this useless product!