by Daniel Shifrin | Sep 2, 2021 | Blog, Career, General, Professional Skills, Success Story, Workplace Matters
I’ve performed many difficult tasks as a pharmacy manager. I’ve remodeled a pharmacy, designed a new clean room, and started a chemotherapy program. I’ve even worked with management to present a new contract to our unionized pharmacy staff. But the toughest job...
by Daniel Shifrin | Aug 3, 2021 | Career, General, Workplace Matters
I’ve written several articles for The Happy PharmD. Most of them have been adversarial: Me and my pharmacy vs. the doctors. Me and my pharmacy vs. the nurses. Me and my pharmacy vs. the hospital’s administration. Most of the time I’ve painted these groups as the...
by Daniel Shifrin | Jul 7, 2021 | Career, General, Success Story, Workplace Matters
I really enjoyed working in my first hospital. I was hired by an older gentleman. He was the Director of Pharmacy. I believe he liked the suit that I was wearing. He was very knowledgeable and very soft spoken. He was also very close...
by Daniel Shifrin | Jun 4, 2021 | General, Side Hustle, Success Story
It was 1997 and I was starting a new job. My previous hospital (where I worked eighteen years) was closing. My boss (Director of Pharmacy) had made the transition to another hospital’s pharmacy department. Working with her vice-president, she...
by Daniel Shifrin | May 4, 2021 | Career, General, Health and Wellness
In many of my hospitals, my pharmacy department interacted with three groups. They dealt with the doctors, they dealt with the nurses, and sometimes they dealt with the patients.And dealing with the patients has only been done recently. It has only been...
