Canidate?
Yes, I realize that im on a roll lately. Turns out i've had a bunch of shitty days at work that just fuel the anger (and gin consumption).
Whats up with pharmacy schools and the use of the title "PharmD Candidate" for students? This only cropped up because I recieved an email from a student from the "Thomas J Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences" thats at the "University of the Pacific".
Jesus thats a long name for a pharmacy school. Why couldnt they just say "School of Pharmacy?". If I ever strike it rich, i'm going to call up this "University of the Pacific" and say:
"Hello, this is the Angry Pharmacist. I wish to donate 100 million dollars to your Pharmacy School, but in return you must name it the 'Dirty Cocksucking Whore School of Pharmacy and Douche Usage Science'". I bet they do just that, and pharmacy students everywhere will curse my name.
But back to the Candidate part.
Is this a fucking contest? Will you win over your classmates to get the elusive title of PharmD? Why dont they just say "pharmacy school student" or "Pharmacy Intern". Are doctors 'MD Candidates'?
Okay, so maybe dictionary.com does have as a definition:
4. a student studying for a degree: Candidates for the B.A. will have to meet certain minimum requirements.
But I feel that its dumb. Fucking PharmD's and their uppityness.
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You're just mad you can't say you're a doctor. :P
I think we still call them pharmacy students over here... PharmD candidates, sounds a little odd to say the least.
You think that ones long, try Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center - School of Pharmacy. And try getting someone to buy a T-shirt with that on it, let alone a screen printer to print it for less that $5 a whack. Love the blog, keep up the good work.
I read your columns periodically and want you to know there are other pharmacists out there in line with your viewpoints. I would be honored for you to contact me personally, if only just to say hi.
You think the name at UOP is bad. Try this one on for size: Texas Tech University of Health Sciences Center- School of Pharmacy. Now it used to be Texas Tech School of Pharmacy, but some stuck up board or regents decided they wanted to get away from Texas Tech and their reputation as a "party school", so they renamed the school. All I know is that any bar you go to on a Friday night in this town is about 1/2 to 2/3rds full of Rx school students. Love the blog, keep it up, can't wait to waste this 4 year doctorate degree in retail.
The whole xxxx school of health sciences, u.o.p. school of pharmacy is sadly a "Class Requirement" for Pharmacy Systems and Experience 1. If we dont have that long ass rant about about candidate and xxxxxx school of pharmacy, we fail. Sigh.
That is hysterical! I was also wondering where "pharm d candidate" came from. I have to co-sign the orders they write in our clinic and it leaves me about 2 cm after they write all that crap to squeeze in my name and my "RPh". I agree..it's stupid.
YES!! I feel like I've come home. You won't get rid of me until you vote me off the island. Angry? Hell ya - This summer I threw 3 staplers at the wall in the same day denting it pretty good. Why? Because they were empty and it pissed me off. I subsequently went to see my NP the next week b/c the look of horror on the techs face made me realize that it probably wasn't a "normal" thing to do. So now with my Effexor XR and evening Klonopin (with a six pack to be sure that I don't dream about the people-no I don't reccommend it to the people, do what I say not as I do blah blah) I now have fewer "fits" of anger although I don't understand why the phone has not exploded into a thousand bits the number of times I have romped on the poor little fucker just for ringing, which is what it is supposed to do-but hey better living thru chemistry.
I can't believe how everyone here speaks my language. Beside other Rph's and techs-no one understands what it is like on the front line of retail. I feel like a whore that gets paid for getting screwed but I don't have to lie down to do it. I'M A STANDING WHORE!! But everyone thinks it's so cool when you tell them what you do, although I try to lie and come up with something interesting b/c once you tell them they will start yelling at you about their own bad Rph experience, or want to know if you can get them Vicodin or Cialis. You can't complain because they know you get paid well-and so do ladies of the evening and don't you think they would do something else if they could find another job that would pay them as much?? OH I've only just begun-bitching about it makes me happy, reading about your pain makes me feel better. Sorry. Thank you-How much do I owe you? I have bc/bs? Whats my co-pay hehehehehehehehe WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DONT KNOW-I crack myself up.
Yeah, it can sound stupid. BUT while I was in school, it was the last vestige of humnanity that I had left, to remind myself that I was going to get something out of the hell I was in, that MAYBE it would be worth it. If I called myself a PharmD candidate, I had some small, distant thing to look forward to. Even if it was only a title, and 80K in student loan debt.
The nerve these students have nowadays. I could understand if they were upgrading qualifications but this is too much, especially for the soap notes. I would like to take this opportunity to tell all the standing whores (like myself) to hang in there and try talking over your problems with someone you can trust.