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  • 5 questions to help validate a pharmacist’s negative thoughts

    What if you could control the way you felt by controlling the way you thought? Like a remote control for television, our negative thoughts take us to the shows playing in our heads. The good news: we can train our brains to better handle negative thoughts, so we end up watching the shows we want instead of being stuck in a bad movie, too deeply committed to walk away.
    Jason Chenard

  • How to 'right-staff' your pharmacy

    If your store is overstaffed, you may need to make difficult decisions like reducing staff or potentially laying off unproductive or redundant employees. Doing that can be painful, for your employees and for you. So how do you right-staff the right way?
    Mike Jaczko and Max Beairsto

  • Pharmacy leaders don’t quit, they step up

    You must continue to improve so that you can continue to advance your team on their mission. No one will follow a pharmacy leader promoting outdated philosophies and goals for long.
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  • 5 must-hit sleep tactics for zombie pharmacists

    Pharmacists are bad at taking their own advice. We counsel on sleep. We counsel on sleep hygiene. Then we go home and flush it. We doom-scroll our phones, grab a snack because we skipped food while busy at work, and sometimes even pour a drink. Then we sleep poorly and expect ourselves to run an optimal dispensary the next day.
    Jason Chenard

  • Torsades de pointes vs. sepsis—can you avoid both?

    Patient case study: Why did the ER physician want me to call him, urgently, before dispensing this patient’s script for UTI?
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  • Battling stress is a work in progress

    Every time I think I have handle on stress, it sneaks up and manifests in a whole new way.
    Sarah-Lynn Dunlop, a young female pharmacy technician

  • The hope of healthcare— Play. To. Win.

    Over the course of my career, I have had the privilege of meeting and interacting with thousands of pharmacists. When I first started out, I did not know the rules of the game. Allow me to correct that. When I first started out, I was playing a very small game. I thought the game was to correctly fill a prescription for a patient as quickly as possible. If I did that, I would win.
    a man wearing a suit and tie smiling and looking at the camera

  • Chronic persistent refractory cough—diagnosis by exclusion

    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.
    A woman in gray sweater coughing into her hand
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