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Essay On Pharmacy Assistant

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Despite a lifelong passion for medicine and a desire to pursue a career in healthcare, I'd always struggled to find the right path forward for myself. Nursing? Maybe. Teaching? Possibly. Physician assistant (PA)? Could be. Frustration built up inside of me as I explored the various possibilities, always coming away undecided. Semester after semester, the same frustrations would arise, even to the point of discouraging me from seeking a career in healthcare at all. That all changed one day in 2017 as I was standing behind the counter at Walgreens working as a pharmacy technician. I was nearing completion of my Masters in Healthcare Administration and had been working as a scribe and administrative intern at a hospital in Forth Worth. During that time, I had given serious thought to becoming a PA, but had never been sure of myself. It was in that moment, however, as I was standing there filling a prescription I had received from a PA for whom I had previously scribed, that something clicked. I finally had true clarity of mind and realized how much I wanted to be the person writing those prescriptions and working as part of the …show more content…

I have seen first hand the many sorrows that can come with suffering from debilitating diseases. In those moments, it is imperative that the medical professional attending to the sick individual or their family can lift their spirits and help provide support. I have also seen how much joy and relief individuals can obtain by seeing a provider that can diagnose and help treat their various medical issues. The look on a patient's face when you have provided them an answer or a solution to their health problem is priceless. To me, being able to service in that capacity on a daily basis--as comforter, counselor, and healer--is worth all of the hardships that come along with becoming a

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