BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo pharmacy student Brian Olney didn’t expect to save anyone’s life when he reported to his internship job one Friday last month.
As a fourth-year student in UB’s six-year doctor of pharmacy program, Olney spends 20 hours per week during the school year in a Wegmans pharmacy to fulfill requirements for [...]

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I was reading over at Fast Food Pharmacy about Big ‘N’ Tasty’s recent robbery and realized how fortunate I am to have never been in a situation like that. The closest that I have been to a robbery situation was back as in intern at a small-town pharmacy.
The pharmacy was a stand alone store in [...]

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Please quit sending me emails about the veterinary therapeutics course. Last I checked, it was illegal for non-vets to prescribe medications for non-human animals. What, exactly, is the point of studying how to treat diseases in animals when animals are considered to be outside both our scope of practice and the scope of practices of [...]

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I know you know that our patient was on isolation, because it’s very hard to miss: 1) the big red “ISOLATION” sign on his door, 2) the big cart outside of his room containing gowns, gloves, and masks, and 3) me, standing at the patient’s bedside wearing said garb. So when you come in ungowned [...]

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