Drug Topics February 29, 2024
Physician assistants have pulled well ahead of pharmacists in a recent listing of top jobs in the health care profession.
Back in 1977, I anxiously awaited to hear the results of my application to the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy in Pennsylvania. We were told that a fat envelope is always good news because it would include all the information needed to start pharmacy school. A thin envelope was always bad news because it would be a single-page rejection letter.
The mail came that summer day while I was working at the paper mill—it was a thin envelope. My mother got the mail and was terrified when she saw it. She opened the envelope, as she could not wait...