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was given 0.5ml daily. Patients with special needs visit www.fortybyforty.org. I have been amazed to can provide pharmacists with a wealth of see how the compounding community has supported compounding opportunities. A simple call to local me to help with this mission. special needs support groups may not only increase All of you reading this article have been blessed with a pharmacy’s compounding business it will more special knowledge and skills. No matter how much importantly change lives and help these patients in we love what we do, it is easy to get burned out at amazing ways. times.I challenge you all to take these skills and use them in a setting in which business and profits have no part of the end result. I promise you that it will renew your soul and help you as much as those who are receiving your help. Opportunities to give back are available everywhere,around the world and right down the street. Take advantage of them and I promise, it will change your life. As professionals many of us are built with the desire to want more, make more and sell more. We work hard to My experience in Haiti was one that I will never continually“climb the mountain”of life believing that forget. I am looking forward to returning to continue more will eventually satisfy us, and it often does not. what I did not finish during my first visit. I turned 40 In reality,when we climb real mountains the first thing years old this year and my goal was to reach we do is look out to the valley because it is in the $40,000 in donations for the Danita’s Children valley where the real beauty lies and it is from the orphanage and the great work they are doing for mountain top that we are able to appreciate how their local community. Currently, we need $14,000 valuable the valley really is. Haiti and its people have to reach this goal.This money will be used to provide taught me that real satisfaction in my job is not at a medication fund as well as to provide additional the top of the mountain, it all lies in the foundations compounding supplies for the lab that already is set of why I got into this profession in the first place, up at the clinic.If you are interested in learning more caring for people and trying to change lives.Working about my trip and how you can contribute, please in the valley. 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 7


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