10/9/2025 If you had to quickly explain to someone what a pharmacist does, what would you say? Your answer may be important for ensuring the profession is valued by patients, policy makers—and future pharmacists.
9/26/2025 I’ll tell you what I tell my six-year-old niece and four-year-old nephew. This is a good teachable moment. Power does not mean credibility. Status does not mean credibility.
4/19/2024 Although treatments can often seem standard and straightforward, the more we know about the patient, the better our chance of helping them to achieve successful outcomes.
4/3/2024 I find it frustrating that, even as I am asked to make presentations to share my expertise at national cardiovascular conferences, practitioners rarely consider my recommendations for preventative and potentially life-saving cardiovascular measures.
2/20/2024 Patient case study: Why did the ER physician want me to call him, urgently, before dispensing this patient’s script for UTI?
2/13/2024 A patient with an unsolvable, longstanding cough presents a test of a pharmacist’s current knowledge, ability to research and relationship with multiple other clinicians.
12/21/2021 There are many patients walking around with undiagnosed, yet treatable, conditions. Through our vigilance, we can catch these conditions before they become more complicated and lead to worsening outcomes and unnecessarily increased costs to the healthcare system.
12/6/2021 How pharmacists can be the cement preventing patients from slipping through the cracks of the healthcare system
12/31/2020 As healthcare providers, are we taught to follow our intuition or gut feeling? Or are we taught to be methodical, sensible and have justification for every single one of our actions? When is it okay to follow our intuition? Does it matter when it comes to judging the demeanor of a patient given their physical presentation versus being skeptical about adherence in a patient for a life-saving medication? What if the situation entailed picking up on non-verbal social cues of your patient’s partner alluding to abuse, oppression, or vulnerability? When is it too far to follow your gut feeling as a healthcare professional?
7/31/2020 Why do patients come to see us is one question, what keeps them coming back is another
