I’m Jewish. I don’t celebrate Christmas. It’s not my holiday. To me, it’s just another day. Now this is a tough concept for someone to grasp who celebrates Christmas. Because for those who celebrate the holiday, Christmas is a big...
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...
Some not so great news has been reported by Drug Topics®. Upon releasing their annual report that surveyed pharmacist salaries, it was revealed that 7 out of 10 pharmacists were not happy with their jobs. This information is key in assessing the overall level of...
The term burnout was coined in 1974 by the psychologist Herbert Freudenberger. He used it to describe the consequences of severe stress and high ideals in “helping” professions. Since then, we now realize how common it is in the workplace. Burnout has...
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...
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...
