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You must continue to improve so that you can continue to advance your team on their mission. No one will follow a pharmacy leader promoting outdated philosophies and goals for long.

Pharmacists are bad at taking their own advice. We counsel on sleep. We counsel on sleep hygiene. Then we go home and flush it. We doom-scroll our phones, grab a snack because we skipped food while busy at work, and sometimes even pour a drink. Then we sleep poorly and expect ourselves to run an optimal dispensary the next day.

Today, glucose monitoring, in the form of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), continues to evolve. As CGM technology advances, so does the evidence demonstrating the utility of CGM.

Over the course of my career, I have had the privilege of meeting and interacting with thousands of pharmacists. When I first started out, I did not know the rules of the game. Allow me to correct that. When I first started out, I was playing a very small game. I thought the game was to correctly fill a prescription for a patient as quickly as possible. If I did that, I would win.

Have you ever stopped to consider how much you actually make per hour as a pharmacy owner? And have you considered how much you make based on the type of operation you run? You might be surprised to run the numbers.

Reflecting on 15 years of being a pharmacist, which started as a part-time pharmacy cashier making $6.85 per hour five years before that, I have held all these traditional job titles that we find in community pharmacy. This means that through two decades, I have spent most of my time looking up the ladder and now my vantage point has me looking down the ladder for a full-circle picture of the profession and its jobs.

The consequences of measles infection extend beyond momentary health threats, encompassing severe illness, fatalities, even long-term neurological disorders.

Travel medicine has become a valuable niche clinical service, which is excellent for patients and professionally satisfying for the pharmacists who deliver it. As you continue to expand the clinical services you offer, travel medicine is an excellent skill for your pharmacy repertoire!