Not a license to kill

"Lack of drugstore pharmacists kills patients." This is the title of an article written by David Dizon in 2002.*

It noted that "[p]harmacists play a crucial role in the process of dispensing safe and effective medicine to consumers" and that "they give valuable information that could mean life or death for patients."

Unfortunately, "some pharmacists actually 'rent out' their licenses and/or diplomas to drugstore owners while maintaining other jobs."

I don't know if we have improved already but I always tell my interns that their license is not a license to kill but a license to heal.

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* http://uw2.abs-cbnnews.com/images/news/microsites/onddot/DavidDizon08132002.htm

Quote of the day

"I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no person should witness. Gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot and killed by high school and college graduates. So I'm suspicious of education. My request is: help your students to be human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, or educated Eichmanns. Reading and writing and spelling and history and arithmetic are only important if they serve to make our students human."

- Anonymous