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October is Children’s Health month and October 21st through 27th is National Pharmacy Week; don’t miss this edition’s articles in tribute to these occasions.
We’ve dedicated an entire article to all the pharmacists out there who need to get a few things off their chest about their professional pet peeves!
In honor of Children’s Health month, be prepared for a heartwarming story of one young cancer survivor, who taught others the true meaning of selflessness and the value of giving children happiness.
Learn about the advantages of My Work Style and how it can help you decide the best direction for you and your career.
Happy Job Hunting from HEALTHeCAREERS and MedHunters.com!
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My Work Style
By Sheng Wang
Looking for personalized advice on how to excel at work? Thinking about switching specialties but can't decide which one is right for you? Wondering if you should change professions altogether? My Work Style can help! My Work Style is a free self-assessment tool has been recently added to the MedHunters and HEALTHeCAREERS websites. The program was developed by NeoPsy Systems, a subsidiary of the Somerville Partners organizational psychology firm.
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Dear Cindy:
What are the symptoms of job burnout and what can I do about it?
Sincerely,
Suspect I'm Simmering
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Child's Play
By Patricia R. Olsen
Four years ago, Erin Puck didn't know whether she would make it through 6th grade. At the time, the New Jersey native was only 12, but she was old enough to know that the brain tumor she was diagnosed with could kill her.
It began one morning when she woke up with a headache. Later that day she vomited. When the same thing happened two days later and again the next week, her mother realized it wasn't just the flu. Initially, Erin was diagnosed with anemia, sinusitis, and the quirks of puberty. But an MRI finally revealed a brain tumor the size of a golf ball: a medulloblastoma, a highly malignant tumor that occurs mostly in children, usually boys between the ages of three and eight. Two days after the MRI, she had surgery at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
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Professional Pet Peeves: Pharmacists
By Samuel D Uretsky, PharmD
There's this to be said for chain drug stores: They make us pharmacists look good. There are more than 35,000 chain drug stores in the United States, and they're all out there putting ads on television, showing their pharmacists as young, dynamic, intelligent. We may never be represented by George Clooney or Jane Seymour (the actress, not the queen), but at least they've helped change the belief that the American Pharmacists Association is a wholly owned subsidiary of the AARP (American Association of Retired Persons).
But, in spite of all those ads, our public image remains that of a grocery store clerk with a talent for cryptography. About the only thing we get credit for is the one thing we'd rather not do – interpret illegible prescriptions. In spite of all the reports calling for improved legibility simply as a basic step in preventing medication errors, many physicians still write with all the legibility of a chimpanzee using a finger paint set. Of all the professional gripes that pharmacists have, illegible prescriptions have always been #1.
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