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Six Things You Didn’t Know About Your Local Pharmacy

July 24, 2012 2 comments

I just dropped $70 to the state to renew my license so this better be worth it.

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Six Things You Didn’t Know About Your Local Pharmacy

From a board-certified and licensed pharmacy technician, here are tips and tricks to getting the most out of your local retail pharmacy:

 

1. You Can Ask the Pharmacist About Over-the-Counter Products

Most people know that they can ask if they have quetsions about their prescriptions, but most pharmacists are also happy to answer questions about products sold in the store. Having been to school to four to seven years for a Doctor of Pharmacy degree, they are qualified to answer your questions about common ailments and personal medical needs.

Confused about different types of cold and flu products? Need advice about Advil versus Tylenol? Need help in treating poison ivy or picking out a knee brace? Just stop at the pharmacist counter and ask to speak to the pharmacist.

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3. You Can Get Certain Immunizations Right There

Depending on the state, pharmacies will often offer simple shots for common ailments including Influenza (they reformulate for new strains annually), MMR, Tetanus, and Shingles. The pharmacists receive extra training for immunizations and are certified for sterilization and intravenous techniques by the state. Although often covered by insurance, the flu vaccine, for example, only costs about $30 out-of-pocket.

I also included info on discount programs and how to write prescriptions off as health care expenses on your taxes.  Click the link to read the rest!

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Top Five Reasons I don’t blog as much as I used to

September 8, 2010 Leave a comment

5:  The News Sucks.  Really.  Democrats are down in the polls.  Obama ignores job creation measures.  Unemployment keeps on trucking.  And yeah, we withdrew from Iraq, but Bush kind of ruined it several years ago with the severely premature Mission Accomplished banner.

4.  Work.  I work in a pharmacy and am licensed and certified, but still get paid below median wage.  It’s like retail, but more counting of thousands of pills and dealing with insurance problems.  Joy.

3.  School.  Formal education is supposedly important.  In addition to Econ, I’m taking Comp II, which is a lot like a class I took in NY called “Lit: Form and Meaning” in which I got really high and wrote an 8 page paper in 2 days about John Keats’ existential crisis in “Ode to a Nightingale.”  I got 100 on that paper

2.  New York City.  There’s stuff to do there.   Remind me to write reviews of Manhattan versus Brooklyn sex shops.

1.  Bed.  I spend a lot of time in bed, because without sleep you can’t be happy. And my boyfriend owns a Tempur-pedic which doesn’t help.  I also bummed his Netflix account and watched the entire first season of Dollhouse on there because Joss Whedon makes awesome shit.

Also, House and Dexter have season premieres this month, which are more reasons I won’t be getting out of his Tempur-pedic bed, unless he moves the laptop… and his penis.

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