Quotes About Pharmacy

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

Medicine is so big and so important.

I've been a regular customer at CVS Pharmacy, the country's second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years. I've spent a small fortune there over that span, visiting several times a week to pick up everything from milk to toothpaste to prescriptions.

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

If the medicine is good, the disease will be cured. It is not necessary to know who prepared it, or where it came from.

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

That's one of my issues with the pharmaceutical industry - they believe pharmacy is a panacea for absolutely everything.

After graduation from high school, I attended the university entrance examination, and fortunately, I was accepted by the Department of Pharmacy and became a student at the Medical School of Peking University.

I come from a Latin nation that had an open policy with the U.S. My parents moved right to Florida, opened a pharmacy, and had me.

On Gates Avenue, there's an amazing Italian restaurant: Locanda Vini e Olii. It's in an old pharmacy - the front of it still has the pharmacy's name on it - and they have all these little tchotchkes and knickknacks and things behind glass. Whenever my parents come to Brooklyn, I take them there.

Folks may not be familiar with Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs, but they live with the effects of PBMs almost every time they go to fill a prescription and have to dig deep in their wallet to pay for it.

Universal health care was always an issue Mom cared about, and the more care she got, the angrier she became that good medicine wasn't available for everyone in the United States. The pharmacy almost always provoked a political discussion or diatribe.

Overhead announcement at psychiatric hospital: Lithium is no longer available on credit.

So modern pothecaries taught the art By doctors bills to play the doctor's part. Bold in the practice of mistaken rules Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

The many uncatalogued volatile compounds breathed out by needles at night slow her heart rate, soften her breathing, and, if she's right, even alter her mood and thoughts. So many substances in woodland pharmacies that no one has yet identified. Powerful molecules in bark, pith, and leaves whose effects have yet to be discovered.

Ces mots semblèrent la décider. Elle soupira. Tu me demandes, à moi qui ai des responsabilités importantes dans un couvent de quarante religieuses, dix novices et vingt-cinq serviteurs, avec une école, un hospice et une pharmacie, de tout quitter pour prendre soin d'une petite fille que je n'ai jamais vue?

By the time of Redux's first shipment to pharmacy shelves in May, PPH numbers were rising rapidly.

We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ—with no side effects.

I have a prescription here for Obecalp for [patient's name], but I can't find it listed anywhere." He said, "Oh. That's placebo spelled backwards.

CVS is an extreme case among retailers. Its new hires are almost always either recent grads or people who have bounced around the pharmacy world so often that they have nowhere left to go.

5) "lost" prescriptions (for example, a customer dropped off a prescription on Tuesday and returned on Wednesday only to find that the pharmacy staff can find no trace of that prescription—it happens more often than you think!).

We are overeducated pharmacy clerks (with doctorate degrees) answering the phone, running the cash register, ringing up donuts and dish soap while juggling 10 or more drug related issues per minute with our one technician yelling "Override!

White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.