I'm sorry but there are VERY few doctors out there that will look at you in your eyes and say "you should probably work on losing weight, eating health or physical activity before we go to the extreme and give you medication".
People themselves are probably THE biggest problem. Let's face it, we don't live healthy lifestyles and our entire society wants us to be unhealthy (fast food etc).
It depends if its really what she has a passion for, or if she is just doing it for money and just telling herself she has a passion for it.I think it might eat at her her whole life if she doesn't do it.
My dad left my brother and mother when I was 2 to go to america and start a real career and had to sponsor us over. I had no idea what my dad looked like until I was 6 as he couldn't return to his home country due to some issues.
I don't know its kind of strange not having those memories but your kids will survive and they will still see their mother occasionally. I don't know I think she should have done it in the first place instead of pharmacy but that's done and over with. I know it will eat at her her whole life. I think money wise it'll work out in your favor but it'll be tough. Then again giving up your dreams and being reminded of it daily is too .
It depends if its really what she has a passion for, or if she is just doing it for money and just telling herself she has a passion for it.
true i suppose if she really was passionate she'd have gone into it from the start and not be so wishy washy. hard to say though, people change as they get through their 20s.
also as to the pharmD bubble.... pretty interesting to me. though i do know a girl who just got hers and they do get paid pretty well probably 100k starting it seems like.
wasnt really sure it made sense though. i mean i'm a programmer, it doesnt seem like it'd be that hard to program a robot to pick all the pills and count them with all the edge cases but i'm guessing theres more to it than that at least for some of the more specialized pharmacists (girl i know is an ICU one, not like a CVS / walgreens person)
Yeah there's a lot more to it. Anyone could be a pharmacist by counting pills as much as they could be a programmer because they can type. Medication and their actions on people is complex, contextual and varies between individuals. There is no machine to date which posesses judgement. Computers help keep track, but they are not nearly capable enough.
Exactly. And for the record there are already robots that handle some of the more mundane tasks like sorting / picking pills. Probably not at your local corner pharmacy, but many hospitals have them. This frees up the pharmacist for more important things like checking the doctor's orders and looking for interactions and patient safety.
There's a fundamental shift in healthcare to move towards reimbursement for outcomes vs. reimbursement for service. Everything is about analytics and data gathering now. For the last few years the more progressive healthcare systems have been data mining their EMR's and digging into outcomes that the feds are going to key on. They have this data ready and are starting to put plans in place. Other systems are in the process of creating analytic departments to catch up.
But the shift is to move toward shorter hospital stays, less bounce backs, and readmits. That's the whole concept of the Accountable Care act. It's just that there is so much data out there it's easy to hide bad practices. You need to know what you are looking for and what the real cause is behind the scenes for it.
As for what the new gig gets her...well her new boss actually writes some of the nationally published treatment guidelines and best practice lessons that pharmacists are supposed to be following. It's just a much more progressive system that empowers her profession more and allows them to practice more effectively.
Pharmacies are staring to buy them/have them as robberies have gone up past 5-10 years.
It's the new trend going forward....
Yeah there's a lot more to it. Anyone could be a pharmacist by counting pills as much as they could be a programmer because they can type. Medication and their actions on people is complex, contextual and varies between individuals. There is no machine to date which posesses judgement. Computers help keep track, but they are not nearly capable enough.
TBH it doesnt sound worth it for what you would have to give up for 7 years