You specialists thought that it was always going to be rewarding, that each day would be an adventure. Can it be possible that specializing is just work too?
You are a medical professional. There is more to that job than what they taught you in the classroom or laboratories. You may be less human than you were four years ago.
Pharmacists hate that they are still viewed by many medical professionals as “pill pushers.” The Pharm D. degree has been the appellation that has been awarded to students who satisfactorily complete a six-year curriculum.
Pharmacists have been shaking their heads about prescribers’ handwriting for decades. It seems that there is nothing we can do to fix it. If we point out the lack of decorum, they get defensive.
Posted By Jim Plagakis At 08:49 AM - (CDT)
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Jim Plagakis, RPh
Jim Plagakis, RPh, secured a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy in June of 1964. Starting in the mid-1960s, he has practiced pharmacy in Ohio, the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, Whidbey Island north of Seattle, and a small New England village in Vermont. Jim and his wife Victoria now live in Galveston, TX, on the Gulf of Mexico. He still works two days a week in an independent pharmacy and doesn’t want to actually retire.
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