Karma and the Pharmacist

[CanPharm]

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**warning - for those who believe in alternate forms of religion**

Wikipedia - According to karma, performing positive actions results in a good condition in one's experience, whereas a negative action results in a bad effect. The effects may be seen immediately or delayed. Delay can be until later in the present life or in the next. Thus, meritorious acts may mean rebirth into a higher station, such as a superior human or a godlike being, while evil acts result in rebirth as a human living in less desirable circumstances, or as a lower animal.

So here's a thought:
Pharmacist should be racking up huge amounts of good karma at work with all the "good" we do everyday. I say its different from other health professions, because pharmacists are only reimbursed for the dispensing service. Any cognitive services or extra things we do for the patient is completely from the good of hearts, hopefully. So that must be some pure good karma
So good job everyone. We're gonna live a good life, die a good death, and if we're lucky, reborn into the royal family rather than a pig.
Keep up the good work! (see there's another perk with being a pharmacist)

 

[Shrav]

**warning - for those who believe in alternate forms of religion**

Wikipedia - According to karma, performing positive actions results in a good condition in one's experience, whereas a negative action results in a bad effect. The effects may be seen immediately or delayed. Delay can be until later in the present life or in the next. Thus, meritorious acts may mean rebirth into a higher station, such as a superior human or a godlike being, while evil acts result in rebirth as a human living in less desirable circumstances, or as a lower animal.

So here's a thought:
Pharmacist should be racking up huge amounts of good karma at work with all the "good" we do everyday. I say its different from other health professions, because pharmacists are only reimbursed for the dispensing service. Any cognitive services or extra things we do for the patient is completely from the good of hearts, hopefully. So that must be some pure good karma
So good job everyone. We're gonna live a good life, die a good death, and if we're lucky, reborn into the royal family rather than a pig.
Keep up the good work! (see there's another perk with being a pharmacist)

Haha..definitely motivational...not something I would say at an interview though....it would get me funny looks 🙂😀

 

[WVUPharm2007]

As a person with no religion and no interest in anything except Dave & Busters, football, BBQ ribs, and collecting urban art, I find this "karma" intriguing. So what if they do something to you that they don't think is wrong, but you think is wrong? Does somebody get screwed in the end? Is there a sort national karma debt to repay you your expected previous wrong in the form of posthumous right while not taking away from their respective postmortem karma warchest? Is karma protected by the FDIC? What if I am cryogenically frozen? Does karma expire? I found out that my frequent flyer miles I've earned through my Mastercard expire in the year 2012....and I was none too happy. What if you have enough karma to get to a certain point...say reincarnated as a dentist...but not quite enough to get something better.....say taxadermist. Do the excess karma that weren't applied to garnering access to being a dentist carryover into the next life for later use? It'd be cool to be a fly 200 times in a row - and with their short life span, you could save up your points to get something cool fast.

 

[CanPharm]

I am by no means an expert with the matters of karma. All I know, is that you will eventually reep the fruit of the seeds you plant. Karma is the ultimate punish and reward system in my opinon. You can't escape from it, it will never expire. If you don't obtain the fruits of your actions this life, you will in later lives. The good thing is that you can negate bad karma with good karma. I think if you eventually get rid of all your bad karma, you will end up some place good, don't quote me . The most interesting thing about karma is that if something bad happens to you, it could have been something you did in you past life... who knows! Someone also told me once, is that when something bad happens to a group of people, ie plane crash, earthquake victims, etc. they must have accumulated a similiar level of karma, probably not in their present lives, but throughout ther past lives. Interesting, isn't it?

 

[nerv12345]

i'm not religious, but i do believe strongly in karma

but i don't know if your concept works too well...i doubt other health professionals are all money hungry and would trick their patients for some more money haha!

 

[WVUPharm2007]

I am by no means an expert with the matters of karma. All I know, is that you will eventually reep the fruit of the seeds you plant. Karma is the ultimate punish and reward system in my opinon. You can't escape from it, it will never expire. If you don't obtain the fruits of your actions this life, you will in later lives. The good thing is that you can negate bad karma with good karma. I think if you eventually get rid of all your bad karma, you will end up some place good, don't quote me . The most interesting thing about karma is that if something bad happens to you, it could have been something you did in you past life... who knows! Someone also told me once, is that when something bad happens to a group of people, ie plane crash, earthquake victims, etc. they must have accumulated a similiar level of karma, probably not in their present lives, but throughout ther past lives. Interesting, isn't it?

So they are like cell phone minutes...they do carry over...

I guess that's a better explanation for evil and unjust suffering than in any of the Abrahamic religions where the evil deity is created by the omnipotent good deity....which in and of itself is a sort of a logical fallacy.....

Religion is an odd thing with me....I don't believe any of it, yet I'll be darned if it all doesn't interest me.

 

[Jbuprepharm]

So they are like cell phone minutes...they do carry over...

I guess that's a better explanation for evil and unjust suffering than in any of the Abrahamic religions where the evil deity is created by the omnipotent good deity....which in and of itself is a sort of a logical fallacy.....

Religion is an odd thing with me....I don't believe any of it, yet I'll be darned if it all doesn't interest me.

I have no intent of making this thread a religious debate, but you're statement is incorrent as far as the Biblically based religions go. God did not "create" the devil. God created Lucifer, an angel, the most beautiful of the angels in fact. Lucifer then became arrogant and rebelled against God which resulted in his falling away and becoming "the devil".

believe what you will or will not, but I think if you're going to imply that something is a logical fallacy, you should at least make a correct statement upon which to base your judgement.

threadjack off. and WVU, I mean no offense of any sort, and yes, religion is a very interesting thing. and I don't care for it much either

 

[WVUPharm2007]

I have no intent of making this thread a religious debate, but you're statement is incorrent as far as the Biblically based religions go. God did not "create" the devil. God created Lucifer, an angel, the most beautiful of the angels in fact. Lucifer then became arrogant and rebelled against God which resulted in his falling away and becoming "the devil".

See, that's where you're wrong. The Torrah also states that the supreme deity, Yahweh, is omniscient. If the deity is all knowing then it would have known prior to creating the being that would eventually become the bad deity that it would in fact BECOME evil.

 

[Jbuprepharm]

this is true, but He didn't create him bad. God also knew that man would rebel against him. But you cannot truly love something/someone unless you have the choice not to.

 

[MountainPharmD]

Karma is a central theme in Buddhism. Buddhism itself is not a religion but a way of thinking. I like it myself. After all you do not see Buddhist crashing planes into buildings in the name of Budda. The concept of Karma is an intriging one and makes sense. I do not consider myself religious or spiritual but I can get behind Buddhism.

 

[CanPharm]

i'm not religious, but i do believe strongly in karma

but i don't know if your concept works too well...i doubt other health professionals are all money hungry and would trick their patients for some more money haha!

Haha, sorry if I sounded like I was denouncing the other professions. What I meant was that pharmacists do lots of stuff which are not actually formally reimbursed for. Other professions, ie Dentists, get reimbursed the appropriate amount for all they do. So that means they are paid for the good they do, while most of the time, the pharmacist isn't.
The concept is still probably off, but just makes being a pharmacist a good thing

 

[WVUPharm2007]

this is true, but He didn't create him bad. God also knew that man would rebel against him. But you cannot truly love something/someone unless you have the choice not to.

That's like me putting a noose around a guy's neck, putting him on a block of ice in a warm room, and then me telling the cops that I simply placed the ice there...I had no control over it melting....

 

[Jbuprepharm]

it's more like giving a guy a noose and a hammock and letting him decide which he wants to hang in

 

[WVUPharm2007]

It's more like giving a diabetic crackhead a choice between insulin and crack. He'll go for the crack by design. But did he really have a choice...was he set up for failure to begin with? That's why when I read the Jewish and Christian texts I see the "devil" character not really as "evil" but a mere cog in what the more powerful deity wants. Some go further and see the "evil" deity as the hero of the old testament. But that's only if you read those texts as literature rather than as an actual religious document. I'm sure your view is the official pope-sponsored view...which is fine...but it's not like the thing wasn't allegorical....which means one can derive just about whatever they want out of it...

 

[Jbuprepharm]

I'll agree to disagree, because this will not actually go anywhere useful, but for the record, I'm not Catholic, nor anything like it (no offense to Catholics, I'm just not)