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Cellardude said:
i would be too. I dont bust my ass getting an education so you can use me like a blow up doll. :toofunny:

At least now its safe to sleep knowing that there will be 1 less corrupt person prescribing narcotics for minor headaches.:clap2:
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For sure! :)

This thread ended up being very productive overall. Thanks for the contributions everyone!
 
Cellardude said:
it works basically like this in the pharmacy. control substances such as addy, ritilin, the C II and C III can only be given a 5 day supply. At the pharmacy we can technically write up scripts when the doctor calls in, we write the scripts ourselves and document it. CII and any controlled substance that is called in needs to have the original mailed in. It's also required that we get the serial code of the script, so the doc would write it on his end give us the serial code, and mail it for the full thing to be dispensed. Otherwise you end up only with 5 days. Thats how it works in New York State. Different states have different regulations so I don't know how it works in other states.
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I am a full time certified Pharmacy Technician myself :) Here in AZ ANY controlled substance can be prescribed as a 30 days supply. We can only take a called in RXfor a CII if it is a hospice patient or some crazy emergency. The original hardcopy must be brought in or mailed to us within 3 business days or else the DEA will have a little word with the physician. As for the dude getting many HIV meds for multiple people. All somebody needs to verify in order to pick up an RX is a name, address, and/or date of birth. We dispense CII's to patients' relatives/friends all the time. It's stupid IMO, but certain things happen to prevent people from being physically able to pick up their own meds.
 
Trauma1 said:
LOL!

If i become a nurse practitoner, i can write my own scripts.....except for narcotics. Physician Assistants can obtain their dispensing license as well to do the same, but it costs like 5-700 dollars/year i'm told for PA's.
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i'm still unsure of where i'd like to go from here. it's between a PA, personal trainer, or pharmacist. i'm 22, so i REALLY need to decide! pharmacists make over $100,000/yr and that is a salary that would work for me, lol. PA's also make good money, but PT's only do if your training celebrities, professional athletes, etc. OR if you train MANY people.
 
bassgod272 said:
i'm still unsure of where i'd like to go from here. it's between a PA, personal trainer, or pharmacist. i'm 22, so i REALLY need to decide! pharmacists make over $100,000/yr and that is a salary that would work for me, lol. PA's also make good money, but PT's only do if your training celebrities, professional athletes, etc. OR if you train MANY people.
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Imho....pharmacy is completely boring. No offense, but it's how i feel. I like the practitoner role of medicine, and the money is just as good or better.

A nurse can easily make between 60,000 - 100,000/year. Right now, in nursing you can get whatever you want, and i am. :) Not to mention in nursing you BY FAR have the most flexible schedule. I make my own schedule literally every month. It doesn't get any better than that.
 
I know there HAS to be another nurse on Aminds other than me........where are you at!!! :)
 
Trauma1 said:
Imho....pharmacy is completely boring. No offense, but it's how i feel. I like the practitoner role of medicine, and the money is just as good or better.

A nurse can easily make between 60,000 - 100,000/year. Right now, in nursing you can get whatever you want, and i am. :) Not to mention in nursing you BY FAR have the most flexible schedule. I make my own schedule literally every month. It doesn't get any better than that.
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you bastard, lol. i agree that pharmacy is boring. nobody respects you either, because you offer a drive-thru service and have cash registers. it's like mcdonald's to our patients. we just fill prescriptions, bill/call insurance companies, etc. not very fun, but it is fast paced and quite stressful. i'd rather deal with less patients and actually be able to help them in a more direct manner. what kind of schooling did you have to go through? just nursing school, or were there other exams, licenses that you had to take/acquire?
 
bassgod272 said:
you bastard, lol. i agree that pharmacy is boring. nobody respects you either, because you offer a drive-thru service and have cash registers. it's like mcdonald's to our patients. we just fill prescriptions, bill/call insurance companies, etc. not very fun, but it is fast paced and quite stressful. i'd rather deal with less patients and actually be able to help them in a more direct manner. what kind of schooling did you have to go through? just nursing school, or were there other exams, licenses that you had to take/acquire?
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Drive-thru?....Not quite, that's the morons that think that's what the E.R. is used for. Not to mention 90% of them don't have insurance to begin with. It's a rude awakening to them eventually. Florida is starting to screen people in triage and if it's not deemed an ' Emergency', you have to pay a hefty amount or you won't be seen.

That's the problem with healthcare.....there is no respect on ANY level to anybody. I can help save a life these days, but it goes by the wayside MANY times. Our society has become beyond scary. I pride myself VERY much being an E.R. nurse that has made a difference in many peoples lives over the years. Saying that "Nobody respects you either" is beyond shallow and ignorant my friend.

As far as EMTALA goes, we only need to assess the patient and determine whether or not their complaint is an 'Emergency'. Once that is done, we're covered from any violations. The problem is that people use the E.R. like their PERSONAL CLINIC........it's both sad and pathetic.

I have my bachelor's degree in nursing, as well as........certifications in BLS(Basic Life Support), ACLS(Advanced Cardiac Life Support), PALS(Pediatric Advanced Life Support), TNCC(Trauma Nurse Core Curriculum), and last but not least my BCEN(Board Certified Emergency Nurse.)

Not bad for having been an RN since the age of 21, so i've been around the block and seen the worst of times. I love every minute of it. I keep up to date in my profession with lecutres on everything for stroke, coronary care, and trauma.
 
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Do you guys get a lot of employee theft of narcotics in your fields. I know in the nursing home we are busting at least 1 person a month doing something shady with other peoples drugs. One of the more popular scams the aids at my place usually get caught for is taking Morphine patches off of people before they are completely used and then boiling the left overs out of them. We get a lot of people who get hired and then immediately the orders for certain drugs start becoming more frequent. A couple weeks ago I pulled into work and I seen the cops there, and my boss had told me that they were watching some girl because she was pocketing meds out of another units cart. She had walked into one of the med rooms and someone seen it on a camera but she let the door close behind her witch locked it so she was caught red handed.
 
Pharmacy was one of my intermediates in my undergrad for 1.5 yrs.

Non-stop organic chemistry and excessive study time was not my cup of coffee. Pharmacy's pay is great, however unless you are the next Bill Gates, all the money is primarly in retail in which you would get burned out very easily.


Honestly for pharmacy there's only retail (wal-mart, CVS, etc) and research (Eli Lilly, Merck, etc). That's it. Not many options. That's why I bailed.
 
Trauma1 said:
Drive-thru?....Not quite, that's the morons that think that's what the E.R. is used for. Not to mention 90% of them don't have insurance to begin with. It's a rude awakening to them eventually. Florida is starting to screen people in triage and if it's not deemed an ' Emergency', you have to pay a hefty amount or you won't be seen.

That's the problem with healthcare.....there is no respect on ANY level to anybody. I can help save a life these days, but it goes by the wayside MANY times. Our society has become beyond scary. I pride myself VERY much being an E.R. nurse that has made a difference in many peoples lives over the years. Saying that "Nobody respects you either" is beyond shallow and ignorant my friend.

As far as EMTALA goes, we only need to assess the patient and determine whether or not their complaint is an 'Emergency'. Once that is done, we're covered from any violations. The problem is that people use the E.R. like their PERSONAL CLINIC........it's both sad and pathetic.

I have my bachelor's degree in nursing, as well as........certifications in BLS(Basic Life Support), ACLS(Advanced Cardiac Life Support), PALS(Pediatric Advanced Life Support), TNCC(Trauma Nurse Core Curriculum), and last but not least my BCEN(Board Certified Emergency Nurse.)

Not bad for having been an RN since the age of 21, so i've been around the block and seen the worst of times. I love every minute of it. I keep up to date in my profession with lecutres on everything for stroke, coronary care, and trauma.
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drive thru are offered for like chained pharmacy's to fat lazy americans who dont even want to get out of their cars when they pick up meds. What a sad sad world.
 
ReaperX said:
Pharmacy was one of my intermediates in my undergrad for 1.5 yrs.

Non-stop organic chemistry and excessive study time was not my cup of coffee. Pharmacy's pay is great, however unless you are the next Bill Gates, all the money is primarly in retail in which you would get burned out very easily.


Honestly for pharmacy there's only retail (wal-mart, CVS, etc) and research (Eli Lilly, Merck, etc). That's it. Not many options. That's why I bailed.
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pharmacy as most people have said it is very boring. The pay is steady and reliable but the stress and long hours is just too much. If you want to make more than 100g per year you'd have to own your own pharmacy and thats just asking for more headaches. (keeping count of your meds and narcotics, making sure not a single pill is wasted and making sure people come to the pharmacy)

but hey, if you wanna drive a beamer or a corvette and own it when your like 25 then pharmacy is the way to go. One of the pharmacist here just graduated from pharmacy school and treated herself to a brand new beamer. Now that is balling. :afro:
 
Cellardude said:
pharmacy as most people have said it is very boring. The pay is steady and reliable but the stress and long hours is just too much. If you want to make more than 100g per year you'd have to own your own pharmacy and thats just asking for more headaches. (keeping count of your meds and narcotics, making sure not a single pill is wasted and making sure people come to the pharmacy)

but hey, if you wanna drive a beamer or a corvette and own it when your like 25 then pharmacy is the way to go. One of the pharmacist here just graduated from pharmacy school and treated herself to a brand new beamer. Now that is balling. :afro:
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The burnout is very real though. I agree that the job and pay is very reliable. The medical profession in general is. One of my buddies who I work out with is an RN.


He's been doing it for about 7 months now (started in Jan '08) and I can already see he's getting burned out. He works the night shift, but he was telling me that all the nurses and doctors who have been working there for a substantial amount of time are abusing drugs to no end.

Both the doctors and nurses are all on anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, sleep medication, and taking adderall and time release adrenaline off the records. They don't have a script for any of it, they just take the patient's 'leftovers'.


To me, there's nothing worse than going to your job everyday b/c you have to in order to pay bills. The law of diminishing returns eventually becomes a real life application.



They made it ungody difficult to get into pharmacy school at my college. Every year there was usually 1,000+ applicants who apply and they only let in approx 120-130. My college's pharmacy was rank #1 or 2 in the US though, I'm not sure which, that was a long time ago. There was a 2 yr process prior to application and I quit after 1.5 years.
 
ReaperX said:
The burnout is very real though. I agree that the job and pay is very reliable. The medical profession in general is. One of my buddies who I work out with is an RN.


He's been doing it for about 7 months now (started in Jan '08) and I can already see he's getting burned out. He works the night shift, but he was telling me that all the nurses and doctors who have been working there for a substantial amount of time are abusing drugs to no end.

Both the doctors and nurses are all on anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, sleep medication, and taking adderall and time release adrenaline off the records. They don't have a script for any of it, they just take the patient's 'leftovers'.


To me, there's nothing worse than going to your job everyday b/c you have to in order to pay bills. The law of diminishing returns eventually becomes a real life application.



They made it ungody difficult to get into pharmacy school at my college. Every year there was usually 1,000+ applicants who apply and they only let in approx 120-130. My college's pharmacy was rank #1 or 2 in the US though, I'm not sure which, that was a long time ago. There was a 2 yr process prior to application and I quit after 1.5 years.
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most pharmacist usually private pharmacy pharmacist end up abusing their own drugs. The retail ones are a bit harder because loss prevention is right up your ass and they wont hold back to try and send your ass to prison. I know right now the staff in my pharmacy seems pretty legit in terms of not taking anything but the reason I was hired was due to the pharmacy manager stealing narcotics. When they tried to investigate to go after him, he quit. I have heard story's of staff members before I started working taking other stuff as well. I myself would MUCH rather push for a job that is decently paying as well as enjoyable. After working in the pharmacy, I'm glad to say that I do not wish to make this my full time career choice. I think I would much rather open my own academy of some kind or prep school for SAT exams and those types of things. It just takes time to build up trust and reputation. After a few years of it you can expect 300,000+ per year depending on how successful your business is. Targeting the right group of kids/parents is very important in this case as you tend to find certain ethnicity's have a higher value for education and the willingness to put out additional cash for the sake of learning more. I think any job that you can run as you being the owner should yield decent amounts of green.
 
Amateur Gynecologist here...


Practice every opportunity I get.
 
Well im going into Microbiology or Pharmacology/Toxicology, really want Toxicology but its alot of schooling and im lazy.
If i do Micro im going to get my focus in Immuniology or Endocrinology....not 100% on which one yet.
 
I loved microbiology. Immunology is very interesting to me. I've actually been studying up on it independently as of recent. That part of the reason why i love medicine so much, because there is a wealth of knowledge to be learned.
 
Trauma1 said:
I loved microbiology. Immunology is very interesting to me. I've actually been studying up on it independently as of recent. That part of the reason why i love medicine so much, because there is a wealth of knowledge to be learned.
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For sure. I love science. I am not sure yet but kind of leaning Immunology or Toxicology. Gotta go to Wisconsin for a good Toxicology program though...anything else i saty in Illinois.
 
MentalTwitch said:
For sure. I love science. I am not sure yet but kind of leaning Immunology or Toxicology. Gotta go to Wisconsin for a good Toxicology program though...anything else i saty in Illinois.
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If you get your immunology down good enough, maybe the umbrella corporation will employ you to develop future T-virus experiments haha! :)
 
Trauma1 said:
If you get your immunology down good enough, maybe the umbrella corporation will employ you to develop future T-virus experiments haha! :)
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hah that would have been sic! Then i would really wake up the peptide section! haha, well we have one lab by us called Argon, i guess they get into some pretty....well interesting stuff to say the least. Very high security and knowledge in that place.
 
MentalTwitch said:
hah that would have been sic! Then i would really wake up the peptide section! haha, well we have one lab by us called Argon, i guess they get into some pretty....well interesting stuff to say the least. Very high security and knowledge in that place.
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Hey if it happens, i'm in haha! ;)
 
MentalTwitch said:
You can monitor the infected for me and do the injections...and inject me!!!! Nemesis FTW!! haha
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Hell no......i want to be part of the biological research team. I have knowledge to back it up.

God i love the RE series!
 
Trauma1 said:
Hell no......i want to be part of the biological research team. I have knowledge to back it up.

God i love the RE series!
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that game gave me the chills for a week!

Played it only at night in the dark. When I beat the game cube version for the first RE series, I had trouble sleeping for a WEEK!
 
Trauma1 said:
Hell no......i want to be part of the biological research team. I have knowledge to back it up.

God i love the RE series!
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Well consider it done! I owe you one anyway....:afro:


As for the game, yea i got pretty messed up over it...BUT...the DOOM series messed me up WAAAAYYYY more. For those that dont know it a 1st person shooter, zombie/spirit/soul based game. Tons of dark, tons of noises, but gosh do i love that rush in a pitch black room and the sound cranked.

EDIT: Speaking of RE...i was on Ebay messin around, found a silver case with the umbrella on the front and inside was vials like in the movie made of glass, on Anti-Virus on T-Virus(Blue and Green swirled setup vials) solf for $336!!!! I like RE alot but not that much.
 
MentalTwitch said:
Well consider it done! I owe you one anyway....:afro:


As for the game, yea i got pretty messed up over it...BUT...the DOOM series messed me up WAAAAYYYY more. For those that dont know it a 1st person shooter, zombie/spirit/soul based game. Tons of dark, tons of noises, but gosh do i love that rush in a pitch black room and the sound cranked.

EDIT: Speaking of RE...i was on Ebay messin around, found a silver case with the umbrella on the front and inside was vials like in the movie made of glass, on Anti-Virus on T-Virus(Blue and Green swirled setup vials) solf for $336!!!! I like RE alot but not that much.
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Damn.....sounds cool!

The cube version was amazing!!
 
Hoopie said:
Respiratory Therapist here worked in a level 1 trauma unit for 11 years..
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Sweet! Where do you work?

I'm going back to my old stomping grounds in tampa. A Level 2Trauma center. 8 years in the E.R. here.
 
Trauma1 said:
Sweet! Where do you work?

I'm going back to my old stomping grounds in tampa. A Level 2Trauma center. 8 years in the E.R. here.
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How many levels in the Trauma center? 3? That sound sintense for the both of you, anythign in Trauma/ER takes some balls i hear.
 
Trauma1 said:
Sweet! Where do you work?

I'm going back to my old stomping grounds in tampa. A Level 2Trauma center. 8 years in the E.R. here.
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Pittsburgh,Pa

My 11 years was through E.R. and the unit. Got out of it 7 years ago and now am in the sleep lab.

I can honestly say i dont miss it. In the 11 years i had seen it all and done it all to where i started to hate it. 12 hours of running around like a nit got old
 
MentalTwitch said:
How many levels in the Trauma center? 3? That sound sintense for the both of you, anythign in Trauma/ER takes some balls i hear.
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Technically yes, 3 levels. Both levels 1 and 2 are very similar outside a few things. Level 1 trauma centers are teaching facilities usually that have MANY residents taking up knowledge. Not so good if you're looking for some serious trauma as a nurse. :)

There are a few other things like research, as well as in house neurosurgery and such. Overall....i love my level 2's! :)
 
Hoopie said:
Pittsburgh,Pa

My 11 years was through E.R. and the unit. Got out of it 7 years ago and now am in the sleep lab.

I can honestly say i dont miss it. In the 11 years i had seen it all and done it all to where i started to hate it. 12 hours of running around like a nit got old
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Great to hear brother. Thanks for contributing to the thread!

My burnout level is almost at max myself. Oneday i will venture off into a different area, but god i still love trauma! :)
 
Thats cool guys. It does take alot to do that, even though i havent. My sister is a nurse, just got into an agency. She did alot of different things in a short period of time as far as sections of the hospital.

I obviously have never been involved in it hands on but from all the TV,movies and "reality shows"(discovery,TLC,Science Ch....Etc.) It seems insane.

I like the idea of being a lazy bum in a lab...haha kind of.
 
I love being part of making the decisions that make a difference. Medicine is a perfect fit for me. :)
 
Trauma1 said:
I love being part of making the decisions that make a difference. Medicine is a perfect fit for me. :)
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:goodpost:
Thats what makes people in medicine so honorable. Accepting a great deal of responsability and trusting youself and knowledge.:clap2:
 
MentalTwitch said:
:goodpost:
Thats what makes people in medicine so honorable. Accepting a great deal of responsability and trusting youself and knowledge.:clap2:
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Thanks buddy. It's really nice to hear that!

I'm very confident in my abilities and knowledge. Medicine works for me. :)
 
I am a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Acupuncturist and Herbalist in NJ. Worked on pro body builders in San Diego and Miami. They are way ahead on the chinese and alternative therapies there.
 
MentalTwitch said:
Well im going into Microbiology or Pharmacology/Toxicology, really want Toxicology but its alot of schooling and im lazy.
If i do Micro im going to get my focus in Immuniology or Endocrinology....not 100% on which one yet.
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Not to be discouraging or anything, but I studied pharmacology for close to 2 years (1.5 yrs) in my undergrad, the organic chemistry and toxicology isn't your atypical piddlywinks that they give to all science majors that barely brush upon chemical reactions.


In order to be successful at this you either have to be exceptionally gifted or study your life away. Pharmacy's difficulty easily exceeds everything I did in engineering. I figured pharmacy would be as easy as engineering when it really was not.
 
I was going to school to be a physical therapist but with baseball my top 3 choices DO NOT have anything close to that field. O'well.

I'll be moving on to something else. I thought about nursing but the schools have waiting lists. I may be able to get into a school that has an academic allowance of a 3.3GPA with a 2.01(long story...I was at about a 3.0 for college) but I guess playing baseball has nothing to do with getting into nursing school.........bastards :lol:
 
Distilled Water said:
I was going to school to be a physical therapist but with baseball my top 3 choices DO NOT have anything close to that field. O'well.

I'll be moving on to something else. I thought about nursing but the schools have waiting lists. I may be able to get into a school that has an academic allowance of a 3.3GPA with a 2.01(long story...I was at about a 3.0 for college) but I guess playing baseball has nothing to do with getting into nursing school.........bastards :lol:
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It's a good career DW. Wish you the best man.
 
Cellardude said:
lmao. Some doctors are serious shady people. I love it when I go through someones profile and see nothing but prescriptions for vicodin.

Whats even worst and makes me SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO angry is when this one dude picks up HIV and AIDS meds for like 10 different people. Same black dude, all patients with thousands of dollars of meds, calls in every day to see if he can refill it for 10 different people and has medicaid.

For those who don't know what this means it means he takes your tax dollars and profits from selling HIV meds. You pay your taxes, he profits. Heck if there were less criminals like this we would probably all have health care but instead, we have people ripping off the government and worst of all us, then the government takes away health care and bam. We are stuck. What sucks even more is that I have no way to send this ******* to jail. Although all the signs point to him selling the drugs, there is still no solid evidence until I have seen it with my own eyes. :/

health care field drives me nuts. Maybe this is why I have such high cortisol levels. o.0
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Yeah, I also love the welfare momma who will through down $300 for her oxycontin script without even flinching. Junkies and drug dealers seriously p*ss me off! You should turn in the AIDs dude for welfare fraud though, no joke. In PA, welfare bums have to pay a copay of $1 for some of their meds, but by law we have to give them their meds if they say they don't have the money. How many of the do you think pay the f'ing dollar? In my estimation, less than half. I work my balls into the ground to provide for my family, and these bums can't even pay a lousy dollar for meds paid for by the taxpayers of this welfare state. I'd like to throw all of the welfare bums and junkies into a giant incinerator on a deserted island somewhere...aren't you glad you got me started?
 
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