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Using My Medical Advocate Skills To Detect And Eliminate Errors With My Girlfriend’s Prescription

The Happy PharmD

I was a staff pharmacist working in my first hospital. This was even before I became a pharmacy manager. I liked working as a staff pharmacist in a hospital. It was just me and the pharmacy tech working that evening. We received medication orders to fill for the patients. The directions were incorrect.

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Why The Pharmacy Profession Wasn’t What I Expected — And How I Adapted Whenever It Got Boring

The Happy PharmD

But the courses weren’t geared toward retail pharmacy or even hospital pharmacy. In fact, neither of these pharmacy aspects was introduced until my last year in school when we visited both a retail pharmacy and a hospital pharmacy. To me, this was pharmacy— not what I learned in college.