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has anyone thought pharmacy is extremely difficult
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The thought has crossed my mind. A lot of responsibility, and a lot of blame if something goes wrong.
I thought about it too, but I think the most difficult part of pharmacy is going through the education process. I feel like most pharmacists practicing in the retail setting dont use half the knowledge they obtained from pharmacy school. Its pretty repetitive and you generally get the same type of inquiries from customers. Id imagine clinical pharmacists and other hospital related pharmacy careers to have a significantly more difficult job.
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I was working with a floater at my IPPE recently who graduated in 2008. He said that you have all this knowledge and people just don't care. They want their meds quickly. I find that kind of depressing.
People don't care how a bridge gets built or fixed, they just want it fixed for their morning commute. People don't care about the master culinary chef in the Zagat rated New York restaurant and his 33 years of experience in 40 countries, they just want their steak. And the list goes on... No one cares about anyone's knowledge so long as they get what they need when they need it.
Pretty much human nature.
I disagree! I love Engineering Disasters and Discovery Channel!
And I sure would like to know how long a chef practiced his skills before that steak makes it to my mouth! 🙂
Sure I've thought it's difficult, but you'd be amazed how much better off you are for suffering the difficulties than someone who always takes the easier road.
I don't think intelligent people count in my post. So anyone on this forum would obviously invalidate the sample.
We're talking about the ~90% of mouth-breathing idiots in this country here.
I would hope they would actually want to know how to safely use their meds but some people are in too much of a hurry for even that much. I'm surprised more people don't accidentally poison themselves.
The instructions, all the side effects, the active ingredients, etc. are all on the patient leaflet. All people have to do is READ before they take the medication.
And to the OP, pharmacy school is not diffcult at all, however it is ANNOYING b/c professors make you do things that are just pointless work to take up time. In undergrad most class involve 3-4 exams and then you are finished. No IPPE, no group work,no quizzes, no papers, no interview random patients for MTM, no community service volunteering BS, no presentations, no busy work period. Pharmacy school also has about 4 exams per class but they include ALL the busy work from ^. 🙄 So to answer your question, no pharmacy school is not diffcult at all, but it does include a ton of busy work for the purpose of just taking up time. They just want to make sure that you won't have time to have a life outside of school. I think thats the purpose of IPPEs right there! LOL...
Hmm, I would have to disagree with you, so I guess it depends on the school. I only have one class that has required homework. In another class we had to do a research paper, journal article review, and some ethics cases. For most of my classes, the only work to is study.
We also have to do several types of service activities that take time, but I don't hate the activities. I have learned some valuable information in my rotation, although it does suck to "work" for free.
All in all is pharmacy school hard? So far I would say no. Is it a lot of studying? Yes. It is also apparent that the school wants you there, they aren't trying to fail you. I would say it is harder to fail out of school than to pass, given that it is ultimately your choice as to whether you study or not, because the information is not incredibly difficult.
It dawned on me that there sure are a lot of drugs out there. Sure I knew that there are lots of drugs but it didn't really sink in until I had to learn over one hundred of them in a week. Then it occured to me that I barely made a dent in all I have to know.
Pharmacy. So easy a caveman can do it
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I want my sushi prepared by a Japanese and a taco by a Hispanic, not vice versa!
That's not true... but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Brief tangent, went to the mall today and Taco Johns abuts a Chinese restaurant. The Taco Johns was full of asian workers and the Chinese restaurant was full of hispanic workers... was a bit confusing.
Indeed, and if you had to know EVERYTHING that went into what makes your way of life possible, you'd be sunk.
This is actually really funny. Those flood American college campuses.
Real talk. They flood these forums as well.
There's a cheap eats sushi restaurant near campus that has a Hispanic guy whipping stuff up. I was a bit adamant at first, but he hooks it up with sometimes almost twice as much fish stuffed into a roll compared to the Japanese guys
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I'm going to question your usage of adamant, only because of all this talk of mouth-breathers 🙂
And I may be wrong... always nice to learn something new.
