Those who are responsible for formulating health care policy should understand that an ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure.
The dissemination of information in virtually every form via e-mail is
mind-boggling. But as
popular as e-mail has become, it is also serving up a fair share of
spam and other viscious messages that generally are untrue, are
doctored, or otherwise cannot be verified.
While there is no question that technology has reshaped the profession of pharmacy on many levels, pharmacists are sometimes challenged by the overload of information.
The FDA's position seems to cast aspersions on the entire compounding community.
PharmQD, a new online networking and informational tool, offers something for everyone
aligned professionally to pharmacy.
In the midst of the H1N! scare, we can all be thankful is that pharmacists will continue to mitigate
the fear by their thoughtful and insightful
counseling efforts.
An incredible thing is taking place in this country: A politician is
taking the nation's pulse on health care by actually touching base with
regular citizens and asking them their opinions.
While there is no question that our
health care system needs an overhaul, importing drugs from Canada is
not the answer.
If pharmacists are going to play an active role in getting this
country's health care system back on track, they need the support of
the people who hire them.
Pharmacists working in hospitals are largely unseen by patients, but they are no
less important than community pharmacists in elevating the quality of health
care.
It's been nearly 60 years since George Orwell wrote his prophetic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four , which coined the idiomatic term Big Brother as a euphemistic way of describing an invasion of our privacy.
W hat could Domino's Pizza and pharmacy possibly have in common? Well, nothing I'm aware of, but Save Mart Supermarkets and Lucky stores in California have apparently ripped a page right out of Domino's marketing playbook by announcing one of the most thoughtless pharmacy marketing campaigns to reach my desk, the "19-Minute Promise.
Smoking is a tough habit to break; some may even say it is an addiction.
When the great English poet Alexander Pope wrote, "To err is human, to forgive divine," I don't think he was referring to the legal sharks that feed off the errors made by health care professionals.
I like New Jersey.
For all the hoopla and noise being made by the two presidential hopefuls over the state of our health care, there is not much talk about life expectancy in the United States compared with that in other countries.
It is amazing to me how many issues relating to retail pharmacy haven't changed all that much over the past two decades.
During my retail pharmacy career, nothing made my blood boil more than hearing a patient ask me, How hard is it to fill a prescription? All you have to do is pour pills from one bottle to another...
As the Presidential campaigns heat up, there has been much talk about fixing the U.
I was having a conversation with some friends the other day who are not pharmacists and the question came up as to why some pharmacists use RPh after their name and others use PharmD ; why some use the more esoteric PD or DPh , and still others use a combination of all of the above.
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