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Transitions Magazine

Transitions is published bi-monthly for members of the APhA New Practitioner Network. The online newsletter contains information focused on life inside and outside pharmacy practice, providing guidance on various areas of professional, personal, and practice development. Each issue includes in-depth articles on such topics as personal financial management, innovative practice sites, career profiles, career development tools, residency and postgraduate programs, and more.

Recent pharmacy closures and ECAPS legislation Recent pharmacy closures and ECAPS legislation

Recent pharmacy closures and ECAPS legislation

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Like so many of you, we’ve been continuing to follow reports in the media about pharmacy closures. It seems like each of those stories focuses on the obvious downside to the closures—a local place to get prescriptions filled is going away. While the inconvenience of having to get prescriptions filled miles away can be substantial

Remembering the day that changed our world Remembering the day that changed our world

Remembering the day that changed our world

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I remember September 11th, 2001, as if it were yesterday. I was working as a relief pharmacist in Morgan City, Alabama, when my wife called to tell me there had been an airplane crash in New York. In these pre-smartphone days, news traveled a little bit slower and the pharmacy I was working in did not have a television so we made do with a...
Pharmacists: We must accelerate billing for services Pharmacists: We must accelerate billing for services

Pharmacists: We must accelerate billing for services

For all my 32 years in the profession, pharmacists have been asking for the right to bill third-party payers, namely major medical insurance...
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Retail theft is jeopardizing access to pharmacists Retail theft is jeopardizing access to pharmacists

Retail theft is jeopardizing access to pharmacists

All around us, the pharmacy landscape is changing rapidly. Rite-Aid is working through bankruptcy. Walgreens just announced closure of up to 25%...
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What’s happened in a year What’s happened in a year

What’s happened in a year

One year ago, I had the honor of becoming APhA’s 15th CEO and Executive Vice President. It’s been a tremendous year with challenges I...
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Congress, regulators must step in on health care cybersecurity

Let’s face it, there is not a single digital infrastructure in our society impervious to the focused, deliberate attacks of cyber criminals. Every day it seems we learn of another cyberattack bringing down a bank, a hospital, a university

This town ain’t big enough for the two of us – except, it is.

“This town ain’t big enough for the two of us” says Woody in Toy Story. Remember the storyline of the Pixar–Disney Film Toy Story where Woody, the lanky cowboy, starts the story feeling threatened by the new toy in Andy’s room, Buzz Lightyear.

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