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Sentinel Events Should Result In A Blameless Society — Not Make The Employee The Scapegoat

The Happy PharmD

Previously I wrote about medication errors in my hospital. This is an atmosphere in a hospital that blames the system rather than the person. Should a medication error occur, and the employee act properly, nothing would happen to the employee. A few of my hospitals had just culture atmospheres.

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Sometimes Involving My Vice-President Made Him Look Like A Fool

The Happy PharmD

I’ve been very lucky in my hospital career. Usually, they left me alone to run the pharmacy department. One of the most important lessons that I learned was that I never wanted my Vice-President to be involved in the daily operation of the pharmacy. The Pharmacy had a new Vice-President. Hiring A New Vice-President.

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7. Reflections on a Career in Pharmacy and Medicine with Dr. Steven Berk

The Physician Pharmacist

And I was working, I got a job in a pharmacy satellite at Erie County Medical Center, I don't know if you're familiar with so County Health Center in Buffalo working in a pharmacy satellite, my last year of pharmacy school, up in the ICUs. At that time, it was called the West Side VA hospital. Absolutely.