Reflections

So I've been helping w/ a few interviews this week. These questions kinda get me thinking. Since I didn't feel like studying yet, I'm gonna do this reflection stuff.

Why are you interested in health-system pharmacy?
- Well, after working at Kaiser, I don't know if I'm interested in hospital pharmacy anymore. I still hate the yelling ppl, but I don't really hate the consultations anymore. From doing these consultations, I realize that these ppl need me. Sure, in the hospital, you're doing "smarter stuff" checking the labs and charts and making sure the patients got right dose, etc, but I don't feel like I'm helping them directly. When I'm working outpatient, I get to help all these ppl know more about their drugs, and yeah, like they say. I'm the most accessible health-care professional to them. After helping a lady figure out her glucose meter and teaching someone how to use an inhaler for the first time, I just feel like I did something for them personally. I think the best feeling was when I told a patient about a DDI that he didn't know before, and he genuinely thanked me.

If you could be a character from a show, what would you be and why?
- Dude, I want to be Dr. Cox from Scrubs. Sure, he's a little harsh on the outside, but deep down he cares for the patients and the people that depend on him. He might yell at them and what not, but you see him fighting for them when hospital policy might get in the way of their receiving the best care.

If you could be a drug from you top 200 list, what would you be and w
- I want to be Vicodin so ppl want me hahahaha. j/k j/k. Seriously, I think I want to be penicillin. Sure, a lot of people are allergic to it, but penicillin was the first ever antibiotic. Many lives were saved since its discovery. People aren't dying from minor infections anymore because of it. I want to be able to make a difference in people's lives like it did.