Viewpoints

While some aspects of pharmacy practice may drive you up a wall, there are customers who will make any day just a bit better

It's called the criminal justice system. There may be another term for it. A shorter one.

A sneak preview of the next CPE series

We asked and you answered: Your responses to our BOP poll question

30 years and 750 pages later, Dennis Miller reports in

What our profession needs right now is some attitude. Seriously.

Five facets of the OxyContin dilemma

A longtime RPh ponders the midlife cost of her new PharmD degree.

Pharmacy techs speak out.

Are pharmacists losing the love?

How do we empower patients who do not want drug therapy to take their routine medications? Actually, one simple tweak can make all of the difference. We tell them ‘why’ they are taking the medication.

It may seem like pharmacy has reached a very low point. One pharmacist argues that specialization could be the best way forward.

The time has come for pharmacists to be considered healthcare providers under the Social Security Act.

Herbal supplements are quite popular among your patients, but too few pharmacists are taking the time to properly educate about the risks.

Thinking about the future of pharmacy? Remember that you serve as a role model for the next generation of pharmacists.

In between the pharmacist activities that can be easily measured, you might find yourself engaging in conversations with your patients.

Readers discuss what rights pharmacists can expect and drug disposal options.

Instead of thinking of the future as something to come, pharmacists should act like the future is here today.

The Affordable Care Act may allow you to make money by filling in the gaps that you already do.

A pharmacist looks at the life expectancy numbers in the U.S. and wonders how healthcare could have come so far, but still be failing patients.

After attending a high school reunion, a pharmacist reflects on what he'd learn through a reunion of his pharmacy career.

The first in a series of articles on the work that social media can do for pharmacists,

Readers discuss taking the time to research, the need for care when purchasing drugs, the need to be more visible to the public, and arguing that cyberconsulting is too dangerous to practice in.

Two pharmacy students argue that the push needs to continue for attaining provider status and it's important to include students.

Blood glucose control is the focus of diabetes care, but a holistic approach is needed to meet all of a patient's needs.

The safe disposal of drugs helps more than just patients.

A pharmacist muses on how being successful can lead to not questioning the status quo.

A pharmacist reveals that the solution to all of pharmacy's problems: You get what you pay for.

A look at the conditions that led to the recent fungal meningitis outbreak illustrate missed opportunities.

While pharmacists learn many things in pharmacy school, Business and Politics are not among them. Find out why you need to know both to navigate the real world.