One day I received a call at the pharmacy from a customer asking me to fill her “liver medicine.” “Liver medicine?” I asked. “Yes, those pills I take for my liver,” she explained. Given that I knew she was not taking any “liver pills,” I decided to look through her profile, recite the names of each medication listed, and try to figure out which one she was mistaking to be “for her liver.” My hope was that she will hear the name and say, “yeah, that one.” “Ok, ma’am, I see Simvastatin, for Continue Reading
Retain It
By the time I was in middle school, it was official: I needed braces. It was bad enough to need them and it was psychologically petrifying to need them but not be in a position to get them. Such was the case for me. I went through middle school and high school with tartar build-up, an overbite, some serious crowding. The summer before I was scheduled to go off to college I pulled out a calculator, did the math, and realized that if I saved all the money I was on track to make at my summer Continue Reading
Let’s Glide
My daughter recently went on a field trip with her kindergarten class to a butterfly exhibit at The Museum of Natural Science. She came back and shared an interesting fact, which has resonated with me ever since. She learned that monarch butterflies take advantage of the updrafts of warm air, called “thermals” and glide as they migrate from the United States and Canada to Florida and Mexico. This allows them to preserve the energy required for flapping their wings all through a long 2500-mile Continue Reading