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Retail is not the only setting for a pharmacist.
It is already hard enough nowadays to get a retail position. Hospital jobs for pharmacist must be impossible to obtain
Retail is not the only setting for a pharmacist.
It is already hard enough nowadays to get a retail position. Hospital jobs for pharmacist must be impossible to obtain
I am also in the same dilemma as to pursue PA or Pharmacy. I had volunteered at a retail pharmacy before and I convinced myself that pharmacy is not for me. I like that PA get to work one-on-one and interact with patients and also it is only a 2-year program. I really hope that I can volunteer/shadow and see how a PA's working environment is like. However, my problem with PA is that I need to get clinical hours and I am not sure how do I go about to obtain these? Should I get certified and be a medical assistant or be an EMT? Current PA please share some tips or advices! Also, it is interesting to see the transition of this thread from pro-pharmacy in 2007 to leaning more toward PA recently. Is pharmacy really that saturated?
It is already hard enough nowadays to get a retail position. Hospital jobs for pharmacist must be impossible to obtain
However, my problem with PA is that I need to get clinical hours and I am not sure how do I go about to obtain these? Should I get certified and be a medical assistant or be an EMT? Current PA please share some tips or advices!
PA = a physician's bitch
So I guess that would make you the PAs bitch, since you are filling their scripts or plugging in their orders.....If you guys really think doctors check on PAs all the time, you truly know nothing about the medical field...stay in your little pharmacy bubble, you will be safer there.
Not every Doctor. I see presprictons signed off by PAs in the pharmacy I work at all the time. This includes some control medications as well.Doctor's kinda need to sign off on everything a PA prescribes.
Whenever I go to see the doctor. Doctor asks for my chief complaint. Does like a 30 second evaluation and then sends in the PA to run the tests, take blood, and tells them what to prescribe.
Filling something =/= PA/doctor's bitch
Poor and happy rather than rich and miserable.
You can quote me if you like.
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Not every Doctor. I see prescriptions signed off by PAs in the pharmacy I work at all the time. This includes some control medications as well.
PA has final saying at the hospital, Pharmacists don't. Sorry, but this is the truth.
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In the real world: Pharmacists take orders from PAs, not the other way around...although the degree is a PharmD vs a non doctorate degree....Sad, but true. Nurses also take order from PAs and get intimiated by PAs. Nurses don't get intimiated by Pharmacists...Often when I make rounds at my hospital, nurses call down pharmacy basement and yell at the pharmacists....You never see a nurse dare to raise voice at PAs.
It's everywhere...not just your place. That's how it is. PA looks down at everyone except MDs. One time we had a new PAs in emergency room coming down to basement and asked for a motrin like this "I need a motrin now...my patients are waiting in ER". One of the pharmacist thought it was an MD and handed him the pill. Later, we found out he was just a PA..lol..,.
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that sucks you guys have had these experiences, no wonder why you sound so jaded with your opinion towards pas. I've had some great experiences, they have all been down to earth, humble and work well with us. Lets be honest though, of course there are some jerk pas out there, but for every one of them, i can personally name a md, np, pharmacist, nurse, janitor,etc that are huge tools and treat people like sh** too.
That sucks you guys have had these experiences, no wonder why you sound so jaded with your opinion towards PAs. I've had some great experiences, they have all been down to earth, humble and work well with us. Lets be honest though, of course there are some jerk PAs out there, but for every one of them, I can personally name a MD, NP, pharmacist, nurse, janitor,etc that are huge tools and treat people like sh** too.
I thought the same thing. There seemed to be quite a bit of hubris among the pharm folks in 2007 that is in short supply now.
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and plus, I like old threads. It shows you how some ppl here matured and grew by reading their old post, and the ones they post. Plus you see the mentality of pharmacists and pharmacy students back in the day, compared to how people think now.
I thought the same thing. There seemed to be quite a bit of hubris among the pharm folks in 2007 that is in short supply now.
From what I have seen PA's dont really get much respect (from nurses) who apparently think they are doctors. PA isnt a bad career choice...definitely better than RN. Most RN's are complete and utter redneck ******s anyways. They all have horrible attitudes and even the NP's barely make as much as a PA. CRNA's are a different breed...but they make bank, much more than pharmacists.
Quoted. 80K vs. 100k is not poor by any means.
From what I have seen PA's dont really get much respect (from nurses) who apparently think they are doctors. PA isnt a bad career choice...definitely better than RN. Most RN's are complete and utter redneck ******s anyways. They all have horrible attitudes and even the NP's barely make as much as a PA. CRNA's are a different breed...but they make bank, much more than pharmacists.
It's everywhere...not just your place. That's how it is. PA looks down at everyone except MDs. One time we had a new PAs in emergency room coming down to basement and asked for a motrin like this "I need a motrin now...my patients are waiting in ER". One of the pharmacist thought it was an MD and handed him the pill. Later, we found out he was just a PA..lol..,.
Doctor's kinda need to sign off on everything a PA prescribes.
Whenever I go to see the doctor. Doctor asks for my chief complaint. Does like a 30 second evaluation and then sends in the PA to run the tests, take blood, and tells them what to prescribe.
Filling something =/= PA/doctor's bitch