Pharmacy Dreams

It's been a lazy Saturday here. Right now, the husband is sleeping on the couch, the babes is sleeping in her crib, the biggirl is reading books, and I'm just kinda sitting. I have a pile of cleaning to do, but that can wait. I just spent the last half hour researching and dreaming.

See, I have a lot of gigantic ideas about what my future holds, and what I want to do in pharmacy. I think that with 2 years of school left to go, its about time to really dig my heels in and start finidng the people I need to make things happen when I'm done.

I'm really frustrated by the state of the pharmacy profession, in general. A lot of things that have to do with the policy and the process and the way we operate here in the states really have been getting to me.

I'd like to see pharmacists helping more. I hate hearing about people taking more medicine as job security. Like it's a good thing, that people are sick and take pills. As if the pills will just fix it all, just like that. Sure, there are situations, diseases, circumstances where that might be a big chunk of the puzzle. But generally speaking? It just makes me go insane.

It's true though. The job security bit. Since so many pharmacies, retail and hospital alike, reimbursement, payment, staying a float, it's all about the numbers. I really don't give a rats ass about the numbers. If I can't work, because no one needs medicine, then I will find another way to pay my loans. I'd rather help enable people to take better care of themselves, treat their bodies better, know why they are taking what they are taking, and what other options there are. I'm not spending all this time in school to count by 5's and work on my carpal tunnel and varicose veins. And if there is no place where I can practice pharmacy at this level, then I'm going to have to create it myself. I appreciate that doctors want to prescribe and people want to take things to get better, I appreciate that we all want it to be fast and easy. But it just seems so silly.

Anyways.