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Reprimand for pharmacist who failed to take appropriate action after patient inj
A West Midlands pharmacist has been reprimanded by the Statutory Committee after he had dispensed adrenaline ampoules to an addict instead of methadone. The patient, who had suffered side effects after he injected one of the ampoules intravenously, h...
best question ever!
customer to pharmacy “could you tell me if there’s something cheaper and better than this?”...
classroom exerience saves lives!
BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo pharmacy student Brian Olney didn’t expect to save anyone’s life when he reported to his internship job one Friday last month. As a fourth-year student in UB’s six-year doctor of pharmacy ...
Lidocaine used continuously
I just had a doctor prescribe a pt lidocaine patch to be used continuously over 24hours. Actually, it’s to be taken off only 1hr/day. I thought lidocaine was to be used as 12-on-12-off? Anyone shed some light on this?...
pharmacy burglary
I was reading over at Fast Food Pharmacy about Big ‘N’ Tasty’s recent robbery and realized how fortunate I am to have never been in a situation like that. The closest that I have been to a robbery situation was back as in intern at ...
An Open Letter to my Pharmacy School
Please quit sending me emails about the veterinary therapeutics course. Last I checked, it was illegal for non-vets to prescribe medications for non-human animals. What, exactly, is the point of studying how to treat diseases in animals when animals ...
