Made DOP

[xiphoid2010]

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The old DOP finally moved completely moved all of his stuff out and went to corporate. Second week of the year, I was handed the DOP title along with a little bump in salary. I was very happy for about 15 minutes, called my wife. Then not long after, it felt surreal. I still feel like a resident. Was that me hugging my residency director and thanking my preceptors just 6 months ago? I was still in pharmacy school but 2 years ago, telling my wife that career goal is to make it to DOP. Holy cow, now what?

I love my job, it's very rewarding. We are but a small hospital, and the pharmacy staff are honest friendly folks who are easy to work with. Medical practice here is quite backward, but it presents so many ways for making changes that matter. Being a small hospital in a tough economy, there's a lot of rumor of someone buying us out. But loving it so far, so I've decided to stick it out with this ship.

My wife, who's a LTC pharmacist is happy and can provide the family stability while I'm off storming the castle. But maybe now that I reached my immediate objective, I should stop working long hours and be a normal family guy for a change. But there is just so much I want to do at work...

 

[pharm B]

Congrats! You definitely got to your goal pretty quickly.

Sounds like you have a lot of good things planned, though. It's gotta feel good, man.

 

[owlegrad]

Always nice to hear the good that is happening to our members IRL. 👍

 

[TemSirolimus]

I have a genuine respect for people who do their jobs and do them well.

Congratulations, you earned it.

 

[confettiflyer]

congrats!

now waiting for the first "hey you hiring?" reply, hahaha

 

[spacecowgirl]

Congrats!

 

[joetrisman]

Congrats!

now hire me!!!

 

[Notecard]

Congrats! It's always fun to see people get what they want.

 

[xiphoid2010]

Thanks everyone. The leadership knew that the old DOP was headed for corporate level. They had an external and an internal candidate, I had another offer else where. But both the hospital and I both took a risk and came together. Had to learn pharmacy operation and management from scratch, putting in 10-14 hour days because everything was a new experience. I guess it's no worse than doing a management PGY-2 for 1/3 of the money. 😀 Thankfully the risk taking and long hours worked out.

But I don't want to celebrate too soon. While we are still making money, profit margin is very thin. Then there are 2 very large hospitals in 50 miles. If they buy us out, they could save the administrative cost, and siphon off the more profitable patients. Right now the economy make it hard to front the cash, but it won't stay that way forever. Who knows, it can be an opportunity to move up to a larger organization or demotion back to manager level, or worse, replaced by one of their own.

No risk, no reward I guess. 🙂

 

[StevePerry]

The old DOP finally moved completely moved all of his stuff out and went to corporate. Second week of the year, I was handed the DOP title along with a little bump in salary. I was very happy for about 15 minutes, called my wife. Then not long after, it felt surreal. I still feel like a resident. Was that me hugging my residency director and thanking my preceptors just 6 months ago? I was still in pharmacy school but 2 years ago, telling my wife that career goal is to make it to DOP. Holy cow, now what?

I love my job, it's very rewarding. We are but a small hospital, and the pharmacy staff are honest friendly folks who are easy to work with. Medical practice here is quite backward, but it presents so many ways for making changes that matter. Being a small hospital in a tough economy, there's a lot of rumor of someone buying us out. But loving it so far, so I've decided to stick it out with this ship.

My wife, who's a LTC pharmacist is happy and can provide the family stability while I'm off storming the castle. But maybe now that I reached my immediate objective, I should stop working long hours and be a normal family guy for a change. But there is just so much I want to do at work...

Hey congratulations! Always good to hear this kind of stuff on here...

 

[jasonkido]

Congrats! You deserve it man.

 

[Farmercyst]

Congrats! How small? I'm per diem at a hospital with an average census of 25-30.

 

[Dalteparin]

Congrats! It's always nice to hear some good news!

 

[PharmDstudent]

Thanks everyone. The leadership knew that the old DOP was headed for corporate level. They had an external and an internal candidate, I had another offer else where. But both the hospital and I both took a risk and came together. Had to learn pharmacy operation and management from scratch, putting in 10-14 hour days because everything was a new experience. I guess it's no worse than doing a management PGY-2 for 1/3 of the money. 😀 Thankfully the risk taking and long hours worked out.

But I don't want to celebrate too soon. While we are still making money, profit margin is very thin. Then there are 2 very large hospitals in 50 miles. If they buy us out, they could save the administrative cost, and siphon off the more profitable patients. Right now the economy make it hard to front the cash, but it won't stay that way forever. Who knows, it can be an opportunity to move up to a larger organization or demotion back to manager level, or worse, replaced by one of their own.

No risk, no reward I guess. 🙂

Good luck!

 

[xiphoid2010]

Congrats! How small? I'm per diem at a hospital with an average census of 25-30.

Pretty similar, recently we've been averaging just over 30 patients.

Good thing my residency was at a 150ish bed hospital. Had I went straight from interning at the old 1000+ bed medical center to here, I would probably... what you do mean amikacin trough is a 'send out' lab?. 😀

 

[spacecowgirl]

Pretty similar, recently we've been averaging just over 30 patients.

Good thing my residency was at a 150ish bed hospital. Had I went straight from interning at the old 1000+ bed medical center to here, I would probably... what you do mean amikacin trough is a 'send out' lab?. 😀

What's amikacin?

 

[Ackj]

'send out' lab?. 😀

I had never heard that terminology until today in therapeutics. Crazy.