by Numan Shaikh | Dec 28, 2020 | Health and Wellness
In the 1976 Olympics, the Russians were accused of cheating due to their racking up gold medals in nearly every event. Rumors and assumptions were made they had to be abusing drugs to be winning these medals at an unprecedented number. But as the passing drug tests...
by Numan Shaikh | Dec 16, 2020 | Health and Wellness
Did you know that 92% of New Year’s Resolutions are never achieved? Perhaps, in a society that expects overnight success, we’ve set ourselves up for disappointment.Perhaps our goals were not broken down into bite-size things that we could tackle.Perhaps we...
by Numan Shaikh | Dec 10, 2020 | Career, Career Path
If you want to download this guide + 48 other pharmacy career paths for you to access later, you can download it here. This article is a part of a series of The Many Paths of Pharmacy, which has 48 other pharmacy career paths. Summary – Pharmacists in Academia...
by Numan Shaikh | Dec 9, 2020 | Health and Wellness
Does prioritizing self-care means betraying your patient care? I asked this question to myself when I was working as a hospital pharmacist and slowly burning out. Our patients have always been our priority as the sole reason for the pharmacy profession, is to take...
by Numan Shaikh | Nov 8, 2020 | Workplace Matters
I previously wrote an article about unions and management. Two of the hospitals that I worked at had unions. In these facilities, most non-management employees (pharmacists, pharmacy techs, lab workers, nurses, x-ray techs, speech therapists, etc.) belonged to the...
by Numan Shaikh | Sep 30, 2020 | Workplace Matters
I was very lucky. I had a good boss. He made me the pharmacy manager of the pharmacy in the main hospital. This was shortly after our hospital merged with a smaller hospital. He was the Director of Pharmacy at this smaller hospital. He made a woman the pharmacy...
by Numan Shaikh | Sep 11, 2020 | Workplace Matters
Introduction The circumstances for the pharmacy profession are certainly unprecedented, even excluding the COVID crisis. The last two decades have brought about significant changes to the pharmacy profession, some notable changes include mass adoption of the PharmD...
by Numan Shaikh | Sep 7, 2020 | Professional Skills
Cash on delivery. That’s when you must have a check ready when they deliver the merchandise. If the check isn’t there, the merchandise is put back on the truck and taken away. Our hospital wasn’t cash on delivery. We were cash in advance. When our pharmacy ordered...
by Numan Shaikh | Aug 4, 2020 | Workplace Matters
My second pharmacist job was at a hospital. I was there for eighteen years. I enjoyed working at the hospital. I’ll admit it had its moments. But it was a good place to work. The hospital was ahead of its time. We performed innovative procedures. The physicians...
by Numan Shaikh | Jun 29, 2020 | General, Health and Wellness
I knew in January that I was going to retire later in the year. That was good. It meant that I had a lot of time to plan. Retiring doesn’t mean that you just stop working. There were a lot of things to do before I retired. And since I’m married, my wife and I did...
