A pharmacist hired a new guy to work in his drug store, one day he came back from lunch and saw a man hanging onto the wall in obvious distress.
The pharmacist asked his newly hired employee what was the matter with him and he said, "The man wanted some cough syrup for a bad cough he couldn't get rid of, and we were all out, so I gave him a bottle of a laxative and told him to drink the whole thing."
The pharmacist was aghast and said, "You can't treat a cough with a laxative!"
The employee said, "Of course you can, just look at him..., he's scared to death to cough."