Comments on I want to be a pharmacist...: Something That Bothers Me

the pharmacy intern should not be registered as in...

2010-03-17T09:42:41.577-05:00

the pharmacy intern should not be registered as intern until they have completed their course of Dispensing lab and Pharmacy law and regulations.
The requirement of prescription label and OTC and prescription label requirement,etc
Before they are called Pharmacy Intern, student should know the basics from classroom, such as what informations are needed to get and give Transfers and

People would be so much happier without this sense...

2009-12-01T16:27:53.850-06:00

People would be so much happier without this sense of entitlement over others.

Also to Megan, You shouldn't necessarily fault me...

2009-11-29T18:48:34.165-06:00

Also to Megan,

You shouldn't necessarily fault me for caving into my first impression of the blog. Read my last reply to Phathead.

To Megan, Your post is sort of irrelevant because...

2009-11-29T18:40:25.650-06:00

To Megan,

Your post is sort of irrelevant because I was a tech for 10 years before pharmacy school so I may have more insight than you and/or Phathead. What you said is nothing new to me.

I wanted to put my two cents in for Anon - I have ...

2009-11-29T16:16:58.341-06:00

I wanted to put my two cents in for Anon - I have only 4 years experience as a tech (I say only b/c Phathead has 7, but I pretty much know what's going on...) and the intern we had a couple years ago at my store was terrible. She didn't really know anything, she didn't know the computer system, she WOULDN'T do tech stuff and COULDN'T do pharmacist stuff, yet she was getting

You're theoretically right that a first year inter...

2009-11-29T13:11:18.830-06:00

You're theoretically right that a first year intern really knows no more than a semi-trained pharmacy tech. As one of the former, it always astounds me to watch my classmates struggle with brand/generic names of top 50 drugs. The problem lies with the fact that, if you put the intern license at the beginning of P2 year, you still don't know hardly anything at the start of that year. I&

Oh, the White Coat Ceremony... we had two, yes TWO...

2009-11-29T08:13:14.533-06:00

Oh, the White Coat Ceremony... we had two, yes TWO of these colossal wastes of time at my pharm school. The first one happened shortly after pharm school started. We were merely presented with our coats at this one, didn't start wearing them till lab the following semester. Then, just before rotations we had another white coat ceremony where we put on our coats... which we had already been

I appreciate your reply and I hope I did not disre...

2009-11-28T23:57:17.507-06:00

I appreciate your reply and I hope I did not disrespect you in terms of your pharmacy aspirations. I admit that I am not a regular reader of your blog and I may have rushed to judgment based on snippets of statements that were out of context. Nevertheless, we both have/had tremendous experience in community pharmacy and I bet that you, like myself, understand that first impressions matter in

Realize that many of the posts made here have a ce...

2009-11-28T23:13:31.609-06:00

Realize that many of the posts made here have a certain stylistic element to them. You can't run a blog for 2+ years and post simple things. Ask any blogger and they'll admit that you hit a wall at a certain point and you have to almost turn into a characture (sp?) of your original intents. That does not mean this isn't truthful, it's just more pleasing to the reader.

My comment was in response to a combination of you...

2009-11-28T21:38:50.824-06:00

My comment was in response to a combination of your other posts as well, not exclusively this one. You have a theme where you think you know more than other pharmacy applicants and interns in all aspects of pharmacy: from technical retail practices to PharmD curriculum to the state of the field itself. My question is how are you so sure you know so much relative to others? Perhaps others don'

I never claimed to know anything, so obviously mis...

2009-11-28T18:04:46.350-06:00

I never claimed to know anything, so obviously missed the point of the post.

funny because you don't know shit either (yet you ...

2009-11-28T14:58:22.047-06:00

funny because you don't know shit either (yet you act like you know everything)

-I'm an actual PharmD Candidate

EDIT: I was also a tech before pharm shcool

funny because you don't know shit either (yet you ...

2009-11-28T14:53:51.360-06:00

funny because you don't know shit either (yet you act like you know everything)

-I'm an actual PharmD Candidate

Well, interns are allowed to do pretty much anythi...

2009-11-27T19:19:05.748-06:00

Well, interns are allowed to do pretty much anything a pharmacist can do, but it has to be under that pharmacist's supervision. To me, that means it's the pharmacist's job to step in and prevent the intern from performing tasks he's not competent in.

If some pharmacist at your store knows that the intern can't tell the difference between Lipitor and Lisinopril, and

I'm glad that, as far as I know, they didn't do wh...

2009-11-27T18:26:01.557-06:00

I'm glad that, as far as I know, they didn't do white coat ceremonies in the 1970s when I became a pharmacist. But I think we should all experience
taking the Oath of Maimonides or Oath Of A Pharmacist. We should assume the obligation instead if the decoration.

As a new pharmacist I remember getting my first wh...

2009-11-27T16:54:19.190-06:00

As a new pharmacist I remember getting my first white coat prior to starting classes. I thought the whole thing was kind of phony too, but the school claimed it was to "foster professionalism". I don't know if it really worked the way they thought it would.

You're definitely not the only one. I always loved...

2009-11-27T14:58:34.665-06:00

You're definitely not the only one. I always loved having an "intern" rotate through our store or a staff technician hitting P2 and magically becoming an "intern" overnight. It really helped shine a giant spotlight on what a joke the whole thing is. The fact that they'd need to be 3rd or 4th year to come close to matching the knowledge of pharmacology I'd picked up