I was at a conference a few years back and was incredibly excited about the level of interest I was seeing online in the educational blog posts I was sharing. I remember telling a group of pharmacy people that I was sharing case scenarios and pharmacy education...
Patient adherence to medications is one of the greatest challenges that any healthcare professional can face. Whether it comes to identifying benefit, potential side effects, or drug interactions, patient adherence should be the first question you think about. In...
Do you ever feel like you can’t get ahead when it comes to knowing and remembering things? It hit me hard the other day. New drugs are coming out all the time, new guideline changes, new studies on drug interactions, safety alerts, and on and on. I feel like...
If you’ve worked in pharmacy and medication management for any period of time, you have certainly ran into medication misinformation. In my work, I will often get asked questions by nurses, nurse practitioners, and physicians. Those questions also certainly...
There are numerous silent killers when talking about diseases. Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and maybe even throw in diabetes in some situations although often subtle symptoms do exist. Many of these diseases don’t show symptoms until really bad things happen....
It is time to point the finger outward at people who deserve my thanks. You don’t know how much it means to me that so many of you come read my blog posts day after day. The even better part for me is that many of you have taken time out of your day to send me...