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  • Bye, bye! Exiting a pharmacy employee the right way

    The process of ending someone’s employment is a brutal one for everyone. However, our role is to take ownership of the process and outcome while leading everyone through it with respect and clarity.
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  • 3 ridiculously simple characteristics of great pharmacy hires

    Who knows where your next pharmacy hire will come from? People are our biggest investment yet we have little time to spend on dissecting résumés, making cold calls and conducting lame interviews. Over 15 years of being a pharmacist responsible for building teams, I have come to appreciate three ridiculously simple common traits familiar to the best staff that stuck.
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  • What does the pharmacy business mean to you?

    Pharmacies are MORE than a place where medications are dispensed. But far too many pharmacists are married to a definition like this. When I ask pharmacy students what pharmacists do, I get a response like: “Pharmacists are the medication experts.” That may very well be true. But pharmacists are so much more.
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  • The consequences of air pollution and what you can do

    As wildfires become a more common threat worldwide, understanding the impact of air pollution and wildfire smoke on our health is crucial. In this 3 minute clip, Dr. Peter Lin, MD, sheds light on this issue.
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  • What hockey taught me about pharmacy leadership

    Leadership skills can be learned. These are skills that anyone and everyone can learn and should learn! These are skills that can reduce or eliminate the problems we face every day in our pharmacy lives. But for the most part we are left to learn the lessons on our own. As a result, we find ourselves playing in a game where we do not know the rules, and we become frustrated.
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  • Staying relevant: Pharmacy-Uber versus Pharmacy-Taxi

    Thinking about pharmacy as the balance of taxi and Uber allows the big shifts to organically happen over time. It allows us to maintain the past and build the future while handholding the customer through the changes that affect their pharmacy visit experience.
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  • 6 accounting issues pharmacist-owners face when selling

    There are good business reasons to adopt sound accounting practices. Detailed, exact books can help you assess your pharmacy’s financial performance and find areas of strength, weakness, opportunity and risk. They also make your life a lot easier when you have to deal with regulators, tax authorities or financial institutions. But they are absolutely essential when you want to sell your business for a good price.
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  • The green light on predictable pharmacy and pharmacy success

    Your job is to create the systems and structures paired with people and resources that shift the balance of your prescription count as far to the predictable side as possible. Invest time and energy into knowing your patients and predicting what they need, when they need it and constantly scan for patient groups that can be standardized like synchronizing your monthly injectables and monthly blister co-pays.
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