Why Am I A Pharmacist? or.... Why I am A FUNCTIONAL Pharmacist!
Jan 24, 2022
I was going through my book, Whole Pharmacy, Reversing the Trends of Disease in an Over-Medicated Society, specifically Chapter 4, pg. 33.
This chapter, The Extension of Sick Care, I covered some egregious past acts of our industry such as:
- Publication bias, where studies are cherry picked to show only the positive ones, and bury the negative ones for approval
- How Vioxx killed tens of thousands of people since the drug maker buried known cardio issues
- How private and governmental agencies recommended Tamiflu without full data being researched and vetted
...Sitting here in 2022, I am realizing, Somethings never change I guess!4
So I asked myself, "Why am I a pharmacist?"
And then, doing some word trickery, wrote on the top of a piece of paper, Why I Am A FUNCTIONAL Pharmacist, and challenged myself to write 20 reasons, stream of conscious like
Here's what flowed (yeah, my writing pretty bad, so I have it typed below:
- Perfect position to guide people to choice
- I can speak effectively to both allopathic and natural medicine- the best of both worlds
- I love feedback that I have helped someone
- I love helping people
- It's a controversial topic- never boring
- I like to buck systems
- I love to teach
- I love to answer questions
- I'm a people person
- I don't fit the mold, and the mold needs to be changed
- I am very health oriented
- In many ways it seems I was guided to do this- as many times I tried to get out :)
- I want to spread the power of mind-body
- Nature is medicine
- Movement is medicine
- It's often a HUGE P.I.T.A - and for some sick reason I dig that
- Communities need us
- Healthcare needs us
- It allows for creative openminded thinking
- We are all trail blazers (patients and practitioners) and wont regret that
So there you go!
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