Can a colour blindness be a pharmacist?

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May a colour-blind be a pharmacist?
If I have colour blindness,
any hospitals will accept me to be a pharmacist in their area?

Are your friends which are colour blindness being a pharmacist?
I am a international student from Hong Kong.
I really want to know wheather I can be a pharmacist cause I'm so interests in pharmacy.

last question,if I finish pharmD.What kinds of job can I do?except pharmacist.

thank you for you sharing and helping 🙂
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madcow043 said:
You might have trouble identifying pills, but that's all I can really think of. good luck
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I can identify the colours when they are one by one 🙁 but when I look at the pictures which are for checking colour blindness,I can't say all the numbers corrently.
 
Welcome to SDN.

SDN has a search function where you can look up topics previously discussed. I wasn't quite sure how to answer your question but I found an old thread.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=581332&highlight=color+blind
From what I read it won't affect your application.

If you are just beginning to look at pharmacy and are interested in what you can do with it you can always look at the FAQ which has a lot of good info.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=198059
 
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LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO "May a color blindness be a pharmacist"
 
themulya said:
Welcome to SDN.

SDN has a search function where you can look up topics previously discussed. I wasn't quite sure how to answer your question but I found an old thread.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=581332&highlight=color+blind
From what I read it won't affect your application.

If you are just beginning to look at pharmacy and are interested in what you can do with it you can always look at the FAQ which has a lot of good info.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=198059
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So a colour blindness being a pharmacist are no problems?
 
They never label drug bottles with just colors 😀 As long as you keep your color blindness in mind, then it won't be a problem.
 
Kurtise said:
May a colour blindness be a pharmacist?
If I have colour blindness,
any hospitals will accept me to be a pharmacist in their area?

Are your friends which are colour blindness being a pharmacist?
I am a international student from Hong Kong.
I really want to know wheather I can be a pharmacist cause I'm so interests in pharmacy.

last question,if I finish pharmD.What kinds of job can I do?except pharmacist.

thank you for you sharing and helping 🙂
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Probably not. However, not being able to speak or write English properly IS a serious problem.
 
Kurtise ma Man...is this what you're asking?

色盲可以是药剂师？如果我有色盲，所有医院在他们的区域将接纳我是一位药剂师？ 是色盲的您的朋友是药剂师？我是从香港的一名国际学生。我真正地想要知道我可以是药剂师起因I'的对药房如此感兴趣。 前个问题，如果我完成pharmD.什么样的工作可能我做？除了药剂师。 谢谢您分享和帮助
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If so, I may have some answers for you.
 
Kurtise said:
Sorry,i don't understand what are you saying.
May you explain? thank you 🙂
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Don't worry about it. This is a place where pharmacy nerds are trying to be funny and cool. Eventually u'll get used to it.
 
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Kurtise, yes colorblind individuals can be pharmacists.

With a PharmD, you can do some things outside of Pharmacy Practice such as Research, policymaking, regulatory affairs, marketing, etc. Usually these require additional qualifications. Do a google search!
 
We have a couple 4th years, and a couple graduate residents at my hospital, and 3 of them can barely put a sentence together, drop prepositions constantly, mis-use verbs, and can't write really eloquently.

Maybe it's because they got into Pharmacy school a few years ago when it wasn't so competitive, but I have heard a lot of "What did you just say?" type stuff from residents.

You should listen to one of them try to explain how to chew Nicorette gum properly, that's always a treat.
 
OP English isn't THAT bad, but unless it improves it will restrict you on the type of pharmacist you can become. Color blindness, like everyone else said, should not be a big issue.

The big issue is your language skills. Education in the US will be much harder unless you can understand it better than you speak it (no offense). I have met brilliant people in my prepharm days, but a few of them couldn't cross over into the PharmD program purely because their basic language skills was not as good as the university wanted them to be.

Don't get me wrong. People will understand the difficulty you are coming from and you will have some leeway, but you still have quite a bit of work ahead of you if you want to study in the states.
 
ffpickle said:
Kurtise, yes colorblind individuals can be pharmacists.

With a PharmD, you can do some things outside of Pharmacy Practice such as Research, policymaking, regulatory affairs, marketing, etc. Usually these require additional qualifications. Do a google search!
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🙂 you mean that I can be a pharmacist although I am colour blindness?

thank you for you helping😀
 
Kaiter said:
OP English isn't THAT bad, but unless it improves it will restrict you on the type of pharmacist you can become. Color blindness, like everyone else said, should not be a big issue.

The big issue is your language skills. Education in the US will be much harder unless you can understand it better than you speak it (no offense). I have met brilliant people in my prepharm days, but a few of them couldn't cross over into the PharmD program purely because their basic language skills was not as good as the university wanted them to be.

Don't get me wrong. People will understand the difficulty you are coming from and you will have some leeway, but you still have quite a bit of work ahead of you if you want to study in the states.
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Thank you for you sharing,so I get it althought I'm colour blindness,I also can being a pharmarcist.

I know that my English is so bad.I am trying to improve it.
Can you sharing some nice methods for me to improve my English?

thank you
 
Kurtise said:
Thank you for you sharing,so I get it althought I'm colour blindness,I also can being a pharmarcist.

I know that my English is so bad.I am trying to improve it.
Can you sharing some nice methods for me to improve my English?

thank you
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I'm sorry to be nitpicking at this but you are not colour-blindness, you are colour-blind. It's just grating on my nerves when I see things like that.. my mom does that all the time where she uses nouns as though they were adjectives.

As for improving your English, have you considered getting tutoring? Or, does your school offer any kind of conversation tables where you can speak with students that can help you with your English? As with any language I think exposure and practice are just the best ways to improve and you'd pick up more conversational language than if you studied from a book or a tape.
 
Kurtise said:
Thank you for you sharing,so I get it althought I'm colour blindness,I also can being a pharmarcist.

I know that my English is so bad.I am trying to improve it.
Can you sharing some nice methods for me to improve my English?

thank you
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Where are you from? If you spend four years in the US going to pharmacy school, that may be enough to improve your English. Your big concern will be getting in. I would recommend reading American newspapers and watching American news programs. These tend to have pretty good grammar, and if you pay attention you can pick it up pretty well. Obviously you express yourself well enough to be understood, which is the important thing, but you will be severely hampered in school if you have trouble understanding what teachers say or reading textbooks.
 
Passion4Sci said:
Pretty sure that in America, it's "color", too.
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Hey now, "colour" with a U is still acceptable British/Canadian spelling!!!!!! Let's not get too picky now, I mean seriously, in America are you only allowed to use American spelling? 🙂 Plus the OP is from Hong Kong, which used to be a British dependency, so I think we can forgive him for that one 😉 lol
 
UBCmicrobi said:
Hey now, "colour" with a U is still acceptable British/Canadian spelling!!!!!! Let's not get too picky now, I mean seriously, in America are you only allowed to use American spelling? 🙂 Plus the OP is from Hong Kong, which used to be a British dependency, so I think we can forgive him for that one 😉 lol
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Hey just trying to help OP get Americanized.

Don't be so defencive.
 
Passion4Sci said:
Hey just trying to help OP get Americanized.

Don't be so defencive.
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I was totally being joke-y, hence the "lol" and smiley faces, so I'm sorry that wasn't picked up on... I assumed you were being somewhat sarcastic in the original post....(as it's such an insignificant mistake compared to "colour-blindness" as sungieality pointed out.)

I'm Canadian, so to me "colour" is the norm, and people (ie Americans) bust our chops about it...so again I'm trying to make light-hearted jokes here, which doesn't come across well on the internet!!! 🙂 ahhh, this is why I hate the internet sometimes, people are to quick to get pissy.

But I think it is legitimate that the OP was probably taught "colour" in Hong Kong.

But just out of curiosity, in America do you ever see "colour". In Canada, both spellings are common obviously. Like, for example, would a prof. point out the "incorrect" spelling on a paper or assignment?

Edit: ha ha, I just notice the italicized "c"
 
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What a Friday night this is. Discussing color vs. colour. I need a drink, or as 4sci would call it, a libation. I'm SO bored waiting for classes to start.
 
UBC, yeah, you'd be corrected for "colour" or "defence" =]

Cali, Friday and Saturday nights are pretty dull for a married guy. At the moment, we're cleaning out the closet and alphabetizing our library, LOL... Oh well. I had plenty of the G Street Pub and Froggy's in my undergrad.

Just sippin' on an Aquatini myself. I know, I know, so frou frou but what can I say, I enjoy a quality beverage.

I, too, am bored for classes to start. Sadly, mine won't start for another, oh, T-minus 375 days or so?

Where's that super sad smiley emoticon...
 
So, a cool thing about closet cleaning is finding nostalgic stuff, at least for me.

Did you guys do this to your graduation caps? @ Calisoca.

The Greek letters are Psi and Chi, the Psychology honor society to which I belonged, and the Superman logo represented how impervious to harm my GPA was (Only a couple of classes being Kryptonite). It wasn't my idea... Everyone seemed to be doing it, so I figured why not.

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Remember these?

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And yeah, wow I feel old. My wife almost fell over when she saw this again:

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Sorry about the horribad quality, my iPhone is first-gen and pretty damn old, LOL.

Ah, memories...

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Passion4Sci said:
UBC, yeah, you'd be corrected for "colour" or "defence" =]

Cali, Friday and Saturday nights are pretty dull for a married guy. At the moment, we're cleaning out the closet and alphabetizing our library, LOL... Oh well. I had plenty of the G Street Pub and Froggy's in my undergrad.

Just sippin' on an Aquatini myself. I know, I know, so frou frou but what can I say, I enjoy a quality beverage.

I, too, am bored for classes to start. Sadly, mine won't start for another, oh, T-minus 375 days or so?

Where's that super sad smiley emoticon...
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Alphabetizing a library with the wife sounds like a solid Friday night to me.

Yeah just wait until you're about 2 weeks from starting classes...time just crawls. At the same time I know I should be enjoying this because when this train gets rolling, it's not going to stop for the next 2 years.
 
Why didn't anyone pick up on this burn:

No, a color blindness can't be a pharmacist. A color-blind person probably could, though.

Passion, I'm a year younger than you and will graduate pharm school a year sooner! That makes me feel un-old. I still feel old when I talk to my 21-year-old future classmates, though. When I graduated high school they were twelve.

Alternate spelling note: For a year in my original undergrad I was reading The New Yorker a lot and started to put an umlaut over a double vowel to indicate that it wasn't a dipthong (as in reeducate). That's a good way to get some red marks on your paper. Talk about pretentious... as far as the British spelling vs. Webster's, I think it depends on the prof. I think I got away with some "grey"s in the past, although that's a little different from "favourite." You'd have to be a real uptight a-hole to knock points off for something like that...
 
Ha nice pics! I never got around to decorating my cap actually, but pretty much everyone else I knew did. Random question...do you ever go to Guadalajara and get the super giant burrito? I think this is just a davis thing but sweet lord I am craving one of those things, havn't had one in over a year now.
 
You guys are much meaner (and funnier) than the pre-pharmers. It took them like 10 replies to make fun of this guy.
 
charfdorn said:
Why didn't anyone pick up on this burn:

No, a color blindness can't be a pharmacist. A color-blind person probably could, though.

Passion, I'm a year younger than you and will graduate pharm school a year sooner! That makes me feel un-old. I still feel old when I talk to my 21-year-old future classmates, though. When I graduated high school they were twelve.

Alternate spelling note: For a year in my original undergrad I was reading The New Yorker a lot and started to put an umlaut over a double vowel to indicate that it wasn't a dipthong (as in reeducate). That's a good way to get some red marks on your paper. Talk about pretentious... as far as the British spelling vs. Webster's, I think it depends on the prof. I think I got away with some "grey"s in the past, although that's a little different from "favourite." You'd have to be a real uptight a-hole to knock points off for something like that...
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Four years plus some change in the Army really put me behind the 8-ball in terms of time, I know. LOL =/

Ha nice pics! I never got around to decorating my cap actually, but pretty much everyone else I knew did. Random question...do you ever go to Guadalajara and get the super giant burrito? I think this is just a davis thing but sweet lord I am craving one of those things, havn't had one in over a year now.
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When my caloric budget permits, we go to Guad's, hell yeah. Although Tara is more of a Dos girl, she finds both Guad's locations to be "dirty and icky" but I just tell her that's autentico! As for decorating your cap, I had some help, since a Tri-Delt insisted I glitter up my Psi Chi, I just let her do mostly the entire thing. Had I been left to my own devices, undoubtedly I'd have left it bare as well! Did you guys splurge on the ridiculously expensive "Grad Pack" things too?

Back to food, my favorite subject... I am more of a Sophia's/Golden Wok kinda guy myself though. To live in Davis and NOT eat Asian food (Of whatever specialty) at least twice a week is heresy. And yeah, I do the entire Davis bike loop at least once a week also, so I can keep from Golden Wok Ass Syndrome.

Alphabetizing a library with the wife sounds like a solid Friday night to me.
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Glad you agree... I certainly do. You're already fit for marriage! Haha. But, seriously, I think "going out" is pretty over-rated. Nothing beats a quiet, relaxing night at home. Why do I sound like my father...
 
lol, I did some closet cleaning/re-organizing tonight too, and picked up my grad cap from storage too...odd coincidence. I guess people on SND on a Friday night are just lame like that 🙂

It just seems so strict to limit oneself to only American spelling to the point of being corrected, but I suppose I'm just not used to it as these things are so interchangeable in Canada (you can get away with either spelling). I could understand being corrected in grade school, for example, but at the college/university level, especially for an international student? But whatever, it's not for me to decide 🙂
 
UBCmicrobi said:
lol, I did some closet cleaning/re-organizing tonight too, and picked up my grad cap from storage too...odd coincidence. I guess people on SND on a Friday night are just lame like that 🙂

It just seems so strict to limit oneself to only American spelling to the point of being corrected, but I suppose I'm just not used to it as these things are so interchangeable in Canada (you can get away with either spelling). I could understand being corrected in grade school, for example, but at the college/university level, especially for an international student? But whatever, it's not for me to decide 🙂
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I really don't have any preference either, except when bona-fide Americans try to act "smart" or "special" by writing "defence" and such.

And we're not LAME! We're studious and academically-minded. Nothing wrong with that! Do you guys decorate your grad. caps at all?
 
Passion4Sci said:
And we're not LAME! We're studious and academically-minded. Nothing wrong with that! Do you guys decorate your grad. caps at all?
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No, they never would have let us get away with shenanigans like that at our grad! Our ceremony was pretty boring and tame, no funny antics or anything. Plus, we only got our caps right before the ceremony, so no opportunity to decorate them.
 
charfdorn said:
You guys are much meaner (and funnier) than the pre-pharmers. It took them like 10 replies to make fun of this guy.
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What's the point of making fun when this guy is so clearly ESL? Politely correcting him is one thing (and pointing out that his English needs to improve dramatically to have a shot at pharm school)...but then again, he probably wouldn't know he's being made fun of his English is so bad. Well, his English is sure as hell better than my Cantonese.

This thread certainly offered more useful advice than the pre-pharm thread though!
 
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Kurtise said:
May a colour blindness be a pharmacist?
If I have colour blindness,
any hospitals will accept me to be a pharmacist in their area?

Are your friends which are colour blindness being a pharmacist?
I am a international student from Hong Kong.
I really want to know wheather I can be a pharmacist cause I'm so interests in pharmacy.

last question,if I finish pharmD.What kinds of job can I do?except pharmacist.

thank you for you sharing and helping 🙂
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All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time.

You'll be fine.
 
charfdorn said:
Why didn't anyone pick up on this burn:

No, a color blindness can't be a pharmacist. A color-blind person probably could, though.

Passion, I'm a year younger than you and will graduate pharm school a year sooner! That makes me feel un-old. I still feel old when I talk to my 21-year-old future classmates, though. When I graduated high school they were twelve.

Alternate spelling note: For a year in my original undergrad I was reading The New Yorker a lot and started to put an umlaut over a double vowel to indicate that it wasn't a dipthong (as in reeducate). That's a good way to get some red marks on your paper. Talk about pretentious... as far as the British spelling vs. Webster's, I think it depends on the prof. I think I got away with some "grey"s in the past, although that's a little different from "favourite." You'd have to be a real uptight a-hole to knock points off for something like that...
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what is the different of color blindness and color-blind?🙁

I'm so sorry for my bad language skill.I will try my best to improve my english🙁
 
charfdorn said:
Where are you from? If you spend four years in the US going to pharmacy school, that may be enough to improve your English. Your big concern will be getting in. I would recommend reading American newspapers and watching American news programs. These tend to have pretty good grammar, and if you pay attention you can pick it up pretty well. Obviously you express yourself well enough to be understood, which is the important thing, but you will be severely hampered in school if you have trouble understanding what teachers say or reading textbooks.
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I come from Hong Kong.I hope my english will be better after I come to U.S.

after I study in a cc for 2 years,may i transfer to a pharmacy school?
or I should study for two years more in university before I enter a PHARMACY SCHOOL?🙁
 
UBCmicrobi said:
What's the point of making fun when this guy is so clearly ESL? Politely correcting him is one thing (and pointing out that his English needs to improve dramatically to have a shot at pharm school)...but then again, he probably wouldn't know he's being made fun of his English is so bad. Well, his English is sure as hell better than my Cantonese.

This thread certainly offered more useful advice than the pre-pharm thread though!
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I am so sorry for my poor english 🙁
 
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