Steve Leuck, PharmD

Patients are commonly discharged from acute rehabilitation units with many more medications than they were admitted with. This is an excellent opportunity for pharmacists to perform medication reconcilliation.

Is there a way to maintain these services in a cost-effective way so that all stakeholders benefit?

Imagine you are blind. How do you tell one prescription bottle from the next?

What tools should pharmacists use to help older people maintain adherence and understand their medications?

Here is the 411 on this organization, which offers programs to help consumers better understand their medications.

Is CMI meant to help patients engage in educated discussions about their therapy or just meet the regulatory requirements of the facility providing it to the patient?

As a pharmacist, on any given day, how many questions do you answer?

Is creating a safe house for drug addicts to freely go and inject heroin really a solution to the drug problem?

We all have a general idea of what low health literacy is, but do we really know how much it costs?

With pharmacy schools all over the country, why not choose one where you may continue to pursue your favorite outdoor adventures?

What about spending your next continuing education week on a tropical island?

Nowhere in the Pharmacist's Oath is there a discussion of units-of-service.

Pharmacists and technicians work in a fish bowl, swimming around each other, sharing space, day after day after day.

Before you read this article, take a moment and see if you remember the 7 or 8 black box warnings associated with long acting opioid pain medications.

Nothing beats a well-written consumer medication information leaflet; our patients’ health literacy depends upon it!

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