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Custom Rx Connection August 2012

I A C P C O V E R S T O R Y My Experience In Haiti The Beauty inTheValley by Mark Gonzalez, PharmD Med Specialties Yorba Linda, Calif. Pharmacy is such a diverse profession.Throughout actions of our hands, it goes deeper than that, it our formal training we are exposed to a multitude of involves our heart. In August of 2011, I was able to paths that we can take once graduation day has experience that in a major way because for the first come and gone. Popular specialties include retail, time I was going to use my skills outside of the hospital, clinical, home health and the list goes on comforting walls of my lab and my office. I was and on.At one point or another most of you reading going to step out of the increasingly competitive this article were exposed to compounding and if you environment that is full of questions such as “How are like me, once you truly took hold of the concept much do I charge?” or “What new marketing you were drawn in to the endless opportunities that techniques am I going to need to use to build my this specialty offered. In the 13 years that I have business.” I was off to Haiti and although I thought been a compounding pharmacist I have yet to find I was prepared for what I was going to see and do, a time where my job has been boring or a time I had no idea that my life would forever be changed. when I was worried about being replaced by a Although Haiti is relatively close to the United States machine or just the lack of need for what I am able geographically, it is worlds away in infrastructure, to offer patients. This is because what we do not health care and style of living. When we crossed only involves the knowledge in our minds or the into central Haiti from the Dominican 4 I A C P C U S T O M Rx C O N N E C T I O N I A C P R X . O R G


Custom Rx Connection August 2012
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