I once worked the graveyard shift at a casino. Durring my employment there, be it the smoke, the late hours, or the chill of the night, I rutinely caught colds. The Vietamese women I worked with would frequently offer me Zinc tablets. Apparetnly, there was a 1984 study which indicated Zinc worked to minimize colds, but I'm unsure if the results have scientifically been replicated. Anecdotatally, it tastes pretty bad and any results I experienced were minimal at best.…
I conducted my interview with Holly W. Keckler. She is a retired pharmacist and is currently involved in the school of pharmacy at Purdue University. She explained what it was like for her to be a pharmacist and gave some advice on what I could do to help me become a pharmacist. Mrs. Keckler worked in a drug store in Lafayette and in Marion Indiana. She gave some insight into what she did on a daily basis as a pharmacist.…
A few years ago, I have decided to go to my health professional and have my numbers checked. Although my numbers still fall in the "normal" range, they're still low for someone my age. If my memory serves me right, it was around 260 or so. I knew that something has to be done, my low testosterone level doesn't only affect my sexual life, but my life in general. I always feel tired, anxious, and unsatisfied of my body.…
“I knew it was getting bad when everyone would tell me that I needed to tone it down, they would be like, ‘hey man, it’s getting out of hand.’ It was like the medication would take over my body and mind and I felt energized, I felt good. But, when you are going through that much Adderall, you know, you would run out of it.…
September 24th, 2015 I was off to my first Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (IPPE) site. This would be my first behind the counter experience in a pharmacy. My site location was Walmart located on N. Monroe in Tallahassee Fl. Walmart was founded July 2, 1962 on the belief that having the lowest prices at all times would be the unstoppable force for this company to grow beyond expectations. Not only did Mr. Walton build store on the understanding of bring the best prices to the community but also invest in the employees.…
We were on our way to school. I never notice before. I knew she was sad, I knew she was becoming a different person. It just didn’t click in my head and maybe it was because I was younger or I was just caught up in my own world. It finally came out; Rachel and I had miss the bus so my mom reacted like any other parent would.…
Throughout the past few years of my life, I've suffered from clinical depression. Freshman year, my formerly happy personality faded and was replaced with a bitter, sad one. I was so scared; I didn't understand why I was hurting so much or that it wasn't my fault. However, I felt that reaching out for help would be even scarier than facing what was going on in my mind. I felt my thoughts were so awful and different from everyone else’s that anyone I told would just look at me in disgust, reiterating what a terrible person…
Addiction is a disease far too many do not truly understand. It is horrible, especially for the ones who; are affected by parents of addiction, or have children who suffer addiction. When I was two years old, my father had left home and my mother was alone in raising three children. Addiction affected my father since an early age and was the main reason I saw little of him throughout my earlier years. He faced jail sentences which sometimes would require him to miss my birthdays and most holidays.…
After suffering a very painful injury in high school from competitive swimming due to overtraining and improper body mechanics, my need to return to the sport gave me a life altering exposure to the impact of healthcare and wellness. To regain my strength and ability to swim I went through several months of physical therapy. My time working with the physical therapist made me realize that if I had only known more about my body and how it works than I most likely could have prevent the majority of the pain and suffering I had overcame. This experience also got me thinking there are probably more people like myself that have gone through injuries or illnesses that could have been preventable. As I started to consider college and future careers,…
My current health plan is an HMO that features a POS option. I receive health care through my father’s employer from an insurance rider that enables me coverage until I reach the age of 30. As their health plan features shared costs among members, the premium for adding the rider to the group policy is shared by all participants. Our current health insurance plan is through CareConnect, which is a division of Northshore LIJ, which essentially enables me to access all Northwell Health hospitals and outpatient facilities within the health network. Through the POS, I can opt for care outside of my network, though the process requires referrals and features higher premiums.…
The Lesson in Quitting For the past 7 years of my life, swimming has played a huge role. Growing up, I had always enjoyed being in the water, and was one of the odd kids that genuinely enjoyed swimming lessons, no bribes required (thinking about it, I wish I had some of those kids in the lessons I teach now). Overtime, it began to feel less like a passion and more like an obligation; something I had committed to that was too late to stop. I was afraid to quit, afraid to disappoint, and trying to be dedicated to a sport I had lost interest in made me start to hate it. This year, I finally decided to drop the sport, and am now embracing the huge change it has had in my life.…
Living life with a chronic disease is difficult for those with it and the people around them; but not unlivable. You or a loved one may be suffering from a chronic disease, and it could be very devastating. Around 57 percent of people in the US suffer from chronic diseases. A lot of people suffer from these diseases and might not even know.…
Our health care system in this country is a joke! First of all, the title is misleading because healthy people don 't need doctors and medicine. They should rename it to sick care, because that 's what this industry is. It 's filled with sick people, looking for help from the "experts" only to get shoved pills that don 't work, get their symptoms masked, and get procedures they don 't need all so the industry can profit. A client of mine is a hospital administrator at a large hospital and we were having a discussion about why hospitals are so expensive and he summed it up like this, "medicine is a business, just like any other industry.…
John, Please describe to me the solution that you find for depression. I think I am going to commit suicide.…
Life as a Drug Addict Most people don’t see me doing drugs but I did and it ruined my life but I survived. I use to look down on people who did drugs and I didn’t understand why they did it and why they just wouldn’t stop using them. Then, I became a drug addict…