Druggist For The People

Four score and seven minutes ago (about an hour and a half) your physician brought forth, upon her desk, a new prescription, conceived in best medical practice, and dedicated to the proposition that all generics are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civilian war, testing whether that medication, or any medication so conceived, and so dedicated, can help us long endure. And maybe we can feel good at the same time. For forty years as a pharmacist, I've been building bridges - from the doctor to those in need of important drug information - you. With respect for the listener, and from the perspective that it is better to apply a recommended course of therapy than it is to comply with an ordered course, the goal here is not to provide specific answers about your drug therapy, but rather to help you generate the questions that will that will empower you in this. Toward that end, there will be weekly podcasts, very often with guests who will be "the people".

Host

Donald J. Schoeff, R.Ph.

I received my Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree from Purdue University.

My forty years of experience as a druggist cover a broad range of settings, including community pharmacies, consultant work in long-term care, psychiatric center pharmacy director, a brief stint in mail-order pharmacy, and in the acute care hospital setting, serving at various times as clinical coordinator, code team member and staff pharmacist. The common thread throughout these years and settings has been an emphasis on patient education.

Intertwined through these years of pharmacy practice, I have also had the privilege of serving as a soccer coach (I never played the game), basketball coach (I loved and attempted to play the game), a middle school science teacher and an adjunct teacher of general chemistry at a community college.