With the second flu season of the pandemic upon us, pharmacies are gearing up for another challenging winter.

The biggest challenge of every retail pharmacy business in today’s hyper-competitive market is finding the right formula to attract customers and keep them. Many businesses believe that the key to success is customer service satisfaction. But just satisfying customers doesn’t cut it anymore.

Pharmacists have many hats, and your personal strengths and motivations help you leverage these diverse roles into meaningful careers. The role I will serve today may be vastly different from the role I serve next year, and certainly 10 years from now.

As our country's population ages, will we be able to sustain the costs of this epidemic? What does this mean to us as healthcare providers?

What do you feel when you hear Amazon Pharmacy is coming to Canada? Fear? Frustration? Annoyance? Perhaps you feel excited because you are curious to try the service?

With COVID-19 cases at record highs in the province of Saskatchewan, pharmacists are manning the front lines with more than just syringes of vaccine in their hands. 

Today there are many more career choices for pharmacists. My aspirations were similar to today’s graduating pharmacy student: I wanted to make a difference in the lives of my patients.