A Call to Help Elderly Patients

Dec 18, 2009 No Comments

I SPENT MY CHILDHOOD with my grandparents. Watching them age and suffer the limitations of chronic disease made a huge impression on me. Little did I know that this experience was to become invaluable to my career in understanding the medical challenges that geriatric patients face each day. After pharmacy school, I interviewed for an [...]

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Creating an Effective Pharmacy Residents Seminar Series

Oct 09, 2009 No Comments

MANY OF US STRUGGLE with the fact that there often are not enough hours in the day to do all that’s expected of us. And if you participate in residency and fellowship programs, you probably feel the pinch even more. In the Washington, D.C., area, which is home to 15 fellowship and ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency [...]

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How to Handle a Hospital-Wide Power Outage

Dec 01, 2008 No Comments

Editor’s Note: Craig Steinberg, Pharm.D., pharmacy manager of Sharp Coronado Hospital in Coronado, Calif., is a Disaster Medical Assistance Team member and serves as chairman of the San Diego Pharmacy Emergency Response Team (RxERT). Although the recent wildfires that ravaged Southern California did not reach Coronado, Steinberg noted that the essential elements of emergency preparedness [...]

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