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Navigating in pharmacy takes a mindset of being comfortable not always knowing what is just around the corner. In a world where we are used to setting goals and planning long term, we are forced into a new normal that has our answers unveiling themselves with less notice.

Just like your car. You need both the accelerator and the brakes. One without the other can lead to disaster. Someone with a different perspective or tactic is not your enemy. I am reasonably sure they are looking forward to a better tomorrow, just as you are.

An important one-day summit presented by CPhA highlighted the push to bring pharmacists into the primary care fold as a first point of contact. If the will is there, pharmacists could start doing most of this work right now.

Many years ago, I was a floating pharmacist and I had responsibilities to schedule and provide coverage for more than a dozen stores. This was my first leadership role as a pharmacist outside of leading my store teams and patients. I now had the opportunity to lead dozens of pharmacists and work out schedules to keep families happy and stores open.

There are countless decisions in pharmacy that we need to make even though they may be less than ideal or feel less than comfortable. As the profession continues to adapt to the complexity of healthcare, pharmacy will continue to change and that will mean having to make unpopular yet necessary decisions.

May 30 is World MS Day. I’d like to take the opportunity to discuss the importance of pharmacogenomics in providing complete care for patients with multiple sclerosis.

In watching and reading about the opioid crisis of late, I'm finding further compassion for patients struggling with addiction.

Have you ever become angry or frustrated because someone didn’t do what you told them to do? Or have you ever not done something in the way you were instructed to do? We all have at one time or another!