Opinion: Hard Work is Inevitable, but Burnout is Not
Note the physiological signs of stress and consider necessary changes.
Opinion: Pharmacists Are Best Suited to Improve Adherence
Learning a patient's specific situation might help overcome adherence barriers.
Avoiding Pharmacist Burnout
Professional associations, gratitude can keep you engaged, healthy
Lower Drug Prices Aren’t Worth Higher Health Risks
How HHS efforts to increase competition could hurt patients.
Opinion: Avoiding "White Coat Marketing" Accusations
Using healthcare professionals to market products is not illegal, but has gained considerable scrutiny from authorities.
Opinion: Responding to the Rise of E-Cigarettes
E-cigarettes have reinvented tobacco consumption and reemphasized smoking's consequences.
Opinion: Compounding Pharmacists Must Rebuild the Industry
Four steps that compounding pharmacists must take to restore their credibility.
Opinion: A New Toolkit to Fight Opioid Abuse
What one pharmacist says the AAOA Pharmacy Toolkit can do to help combat the opioid epidemic.
Opinion: Job Satisfaction is a Choice
The key to job satisfaction lies in your perspective.
Opinion: Only a Healthcare Revolution Can Change Compensation Trends
4 things that need to happen before pharmacists can expect improvements in compensation.
Opinion: Pharmacists Are More Than Just Drug Experts
One pharmacist’s thoughts on how and why the practicing pharmacist is becoming a holistic health advocate, as opposed to merely an encyclopedia of pharmaceuticals.
Holiday Perspective of a Pharmacist
How one Pharmacist's Thanksgiving reflections have reinvigorated his sense of purpose.
Opinion: Is Modern Medicine a Religion?
Physicians are our priests, the war on disease has replaced the fight against sin, and pills are our Eucharist.
How to Create the Job You Want
You probably can’t find your perfect job-you’ll have to make it.
Opinion: There are Too Many Colleges of Pharmacy
Dean emeritus and Remington professor emeritus of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences, discusses why he believes students and alumni deserve better and should demand more.
Why I Still Recommend the Pharmacist Profession
Pharmacy has changed a lot in the last 50 years-but a lot of that has been for the good of the profession and the public.
Why Pharmacists Need to Change Their Attitude
The opioid epidemic requires that all healthcare professionals-pharmacists included-re-examine how they approach pain patients.
Understaffing: The cancer on our profession
Why one pharmacist thinks pharmacy education is being wasted.
It’s Time to Improve the Pharmacist/Physician Relationship
Pharmacists are often siloed from vital patient information- and this pharmacist thinks something needs to change.
10 Reasons Pharmacists Have It Tougher Than Anyone Else
Being a pharmacist is great, but it's also tough-and sometimes it helps to complain a little.
10 Pharmacist Suggestions for Trump's Drug Pricing Campaign
What one pharmacist suggests President Trump should do to help pharmacists and their patients.
It's Time for Pharmacists to Carve Out a New Role
Specialty pharmaceuticals will have a growing impact on pharmacists. Here’s how it could change your role.
It's Time to Rethink Pharmacy Tech Staffing
Chicago proposed legislation requiring minimum pharmacy technician hours. Should other municipalities follow suit?
Alexa, Should Amazon Sell Prescription Drugs?
One pharmacist's take on the recent Amazon news.
Explaining the Flawed DIR System to Student Pharmacists
Peter Kreckel recently tried to explain DIR fees to students. Here’s how it went.
The Future of Pharmacy Is Not All Doom and Gloom
There is plenty for community pharmacists to worry about, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Your 10 Worst Pharmacy Mistakes
In pharmacy, mistakes are serious, but they still happen. You wrote in with the mistakes that have stuck with you-and changed how you do your job.
Fixing a Broken System with Technology
Technology can help patients who need specialty pharmacy medications get them faster by streamlining the processes involved.
Making the Case for Regulated Marijuana
Pharmacists urged to support controls to the marijuana market but oppose criminalization.
A Pharmacist Makes the Case Against Legalizing Marijuana
The legalization of marijuana has consequences.