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Writers enjoy letters from readers. Early in my blogging days, an encouraging word would keep me going when I wanted to stop. I’m grateful for such feedback. But not all letters were easy to read. Some of the hardest were the emails from unemployed pharmacists. They sounded to me like a cry for help....
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The incredibly quotable William Ward once said that “feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” Not wanting to be guilty of such a crime, I wish to express here on this blog the many things which I, as a pharmacist, am truly thankful for at the moment....
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Lately I’ve been watching a bunch of tweets, posts and professional back-slapping going on about the news that pharmacists are apparently the most trusted health care professionals. I saw the news posted at NABP and DrugStore News and many other places. The original study that everyone seems to be...
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Can you have a successful career as a pharmacist and still maintain a great quality of life? That is a question that many would-be pharmacy students have asked me in the past. As I spoke at high schools or job-fairs about the pharmacy profession, young men and women would wonder what “life was really...
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One of the delights as a blogger and a pharmacist is to get letters from readers who have questions. You should know that I respond to each and every email I receive. While this takes valuable time, I consider it to be a part of my professional service to my fellow-pharmacists and pharmacy students....
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As a pharmacy manager and consultant I’ve interviewed and hired a few pharmacists in my time. As such, I can sympathize with both the employee and the employer as they go through the often murky waters of looking for a great match between a candidate and a job. It isn’t easy. ...
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In my opinion (for what it’s worth) one of the best ways that retail pharmacists can add more diversity to their careers is by pursuing opportunities to become pharmacy managers. This is because the skills you will learn and develop as managers will often open many doors as companies are...
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Your career success might be determined more by how you QUIT a job than on how you GET a job. They say “quitters never prosper.” But I say that quitting, and quitting well, can sometimes be the best and most important career move of your life. Sadly, however, far too much attention is...
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William Cowper, the prolific 18th century hymnist and poet once wrote “Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.” One of the things that attracted me early on to pharmacy was the variety of career paths it offered. There are pharmacists in regulatory rolls,...
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While working with pharmacy students for many years as a clinical preceptor, one common topic of discussion (when we weren’t talking drug metabolism or warfarin interactions) was the pharmacy job market. No surprise, as these students were sinking 150K or more into their education! Since then the...
