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Pharmacy U Toronto is just around the corner and returning for its 11th year of innovative and actionable pharmacy education. Pharmacy U is the only event in Canada that unites changemakers, innovators, and pharmacy leaders from across Canada – and beyond.

With the introduction of new and increasingly effective treatments, it is important for pharmacists to ask, engage and assist people with obesity. But many pharmacists and healthcare professionals don’t feel they have the tools and knowledge for effective management.

It is not uncommon when it is time to sit down and write one of these articles that I reach out to my editor to see if there are any specific topics that I should address. This time when I asked the question, I received a request that I must admit, I found to be extremely challenging.

As pharmacists we can’t live like students in an adult world. We need to invest in life structure because life as a pharmacist is longer than a four-year degree. In order to show up for our patients, staff and business while managing life and family, we need to last. We need to take care of ourselves so that we can take care of others.

Considering what to write this week, I am reminded of how many leaders are lonely and feel isolated and disconnected from others.

Your job is to create the systems and structures paired with people and resources that shift the balance of your Rx count as far to the predictable side as possible.

At least once a week, whether I’m delivering a seminar, working one-on-one with a client, or just responding to email, I hear some variation of the following statement: “I don’t want to send my newsletter / publish my blog / promote my service / talk about what I do too loudly or too often. I don’t want to be pushy.”

After a tumultuous 2022 investment year underscores the need to clean up your investment pantry for tax-loss selling purposes.