Is your pharmacy brain stuck in training mode?
The problem with pharmacy is that it is all practice. It is training without race day. The daily grind offers much of the same training as it did the day before. After a short time, we become jaded. We practise with repetitive questions, monotonous problems, completing the daily-weekly-monthly tasks and draft endless calendars.
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2/25/2026
Pharmacists: teleprompters or prescribers?
Remember when your classmate said he would know the answer when he saw it listed in the options? He was right. And this was the first clue that pharmacists have teleprompter brains.
12/23/2024
Why should pharmacists avoid cutting their own lawns?
Easy question: what do you make per hour? Another easy question: how many hours would you have to work to buy freedom for something nagging you, that you are not the expert in anyway? By outsourcing, can you create a job for someone else. If so, it’s time to bet on yourself and outsource.
12/16/2024
Pharmacy is like jumping out of an airplane. You need a backup chute
It is much easier to fantasize about the various ways your pharmacy can be successful. We can picture a rising prescription volume, inventing new workflow to get medication reviews done efficiently, conducting a vaccine clinic or implementing robotics for blister packaging. However, the much harder mental exercise is imagining how your pharmacy can fail. It means predicting the unpredictable, without letting it control you.
