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Canada pharmacy recommendation

Posted By: Dee on 2006-08-21
In Reply to: Can anyone recommend a good, safe Canadian pharmacy? NM - ALS

I've personally used this pharmacy in Canada by mail and they have been great.


 





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I did pharmacy tech for a while.
Studied up on math for a couple of days, didn't take a course or anything. Passed the test. It's pretty much a crap job, too. $12 an hour, low person on the totem pole, lots of negative coworkers.
Pharmacy tech in my area (sm)
is pretty well paid. Plus a lot of insurance companies that are hiring pharmacy techs are requiring you to have coding. So this is all a work in process to get the most education I can get before going back into the work force. I am not going to be able to work full-time but I would like to know that I have gotten the best education I can to do what I have planned to do.

I like the "science" of the pharmacy tech profession...at least the part of it that works with the total parenteral nutrition compounding etc.
I'm looking into pharmacy tech or polysomnography.
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New career/pharmacy tech? s/m
OK - let's hear it. I think it's time to get away from transcribing, and I'm researching taking a course for pharmacy tech. Anybody do this, know someone who does it? My kids will both be in college within the next 2 years, so crappy shifts and teen supervision will not be an issue anymore. The good and the bad, please!
Thanks to all --
My son has been a pharmacy tech for about 10 years (sm)
and is now back in school to become a radiographer. I believe his course was about a year long, and he had to get about a year's experience in a drugstore before getting hired at a hospital. The hospital pay is much better (he makes about $20/hr in Portland, OR) and is less stressful in his opinion because he prefers being in his little cave mixing IV chemos to waiting on customers. Still, it's a dead-end job in the sense that there is nowhere to go from here; you can't be promoted to pharmacist, for instance. He's still young and has decided he needs to make more money and do something that might offer more opportunities over time.

My understanding is that there will be lots of jobs open to pharmacy techs in the future, so if it sounds like something you'd like to do, go for it! Good luck to you.
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J.K Lasser's Small Business tax guide.  It explains deductibles in plain English and gives you all the details on how you are or are not eligible for the deduction etc.  I have used it many times over and have found many deductions I didn't know about.  I also have the 1001 deductions and tax breaks for personal deductions....very nice.  (As an IC I end up paying less than i would as an employee after deductions)
Recommendation

I would highly recommend not going with book form but to the electronic form.  It is so much better and so time saving.  I use Quick-Look Electronic.  You can order it on Stedman's site or you might try E-Bay.


I should also say that DD #1 started out at a grocery store pharmacy
then went on to the hospital after 9 mos or so.
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You can try the product for free before you purchase it ($30). For anyone who is interested:   http://www.ewido.net/en/


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Good Luck to you in whatever you choose to do.
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Can anyone recommend a good, safe Canadian pharmacy? NM
NM
I do have a recommendation. The Phillips comes with the ability

to download twice and I would make sure I set that up.  Download to the file that will be coming to you.  Then use the backup download to a file that is totally separate.  I call it backupvoicefiles.  I have found files in the backupvoicefiles that for some reason didn't come to me in the regular file. They would have been lost if I didn't know to check this. Phillips has no explanation for why this happens. I have been most happy with the Phillips equipment especially since I figured this part out. When the girls are looking for work that he claims that dictates and I have not transcribed, I know the approximate numbers to check and have them go into the backupvoicefile folder and check to see if it is there.


Good luck.  My doctors love the Phillips better than they did the Olympus and much fewer problems.


Thank you for the Koss headphone recommendation sm
I had to get another pair because think my $45 pair is dying and I can't afford another pair...and 2 new keyboards, a new mouse, a space heater, a special MT pedal and some software this month.

I was at Wally's and they had one type of Koss headphones only costing $5 and I bought them. I really like them and they are quiet. They even came with an extra pair of padded foam thingys for the ear part.

So, to all who said try them, I have and many thanks.
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I recommended it and I stand by taht recommendation (sm)

The previous version (2002) still has some valuable information and the newest version, 2008, came out at the end of April/first part of May.  Not sure if you can get it on amazon.com but you can get it from their publisher rayve (google it or the book title) or you might be able to find it on half.com.


 


I got the 2002 version on interlibrary loan from my local library, read it cover to cover TWICE and it was a wealth of information!!!!  I strongly recommend this book to anyone thinking about starting out on their own.  :)


Best recommendation is chooosing an AAMT/AHDI approved course
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I briefly talked to my uncle, who is psychiatrist, about Tater. His recommendation was to take her
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I saw the "per" recommendation over at MT911, emailed my QA and never heard back ... about BOS
I had all my frequencies formatted as

q. 6h.

Then noticed they were being changed to

q.6 h.

Searched my BOS and found one ... very marginal (an exampled within antother entry) citation ...

Sure -- I want to do it the right way ... if only I could know what the "right way" was ...

It would be infinitely easier if some sort of "rationale" or reason for this-not-that were given.

Whatever.
Pharmacy tech 15 weeks, polysomnography 7 month course at local community college..worth a shot!
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Canada Day
I know this is late, but Happy Canada Day to you too!! :)
I wonder if she was from Canada. sm
Used to have a doc from Canada who talked like that. It was hilarious to see how it printed out from voice recognition.
Where in Canada was this??
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MT in Canada
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Hey what about canada
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canada/USA

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Hi Janett, could you provide the company name that is offering this job?  I live in Canada and was just curious......


You can email me privately if you want to.  Thanks so much.


What does Canada
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Canada
Hi Molly - I'm currently taking the Canscribe course and it is excellent.  From everything that I've read they are the best school in Canada.  I would certainly look into it further.  The course is very thorough, well layed out and very user friendly!  I'm pretty sure employers are happy to hire Canscribe graduates.
So where will the MDs run if both Canada and

So, the issue is because all the MDs in Canada left and came to the USA because they did not agree with the government run health care?


So if USA goes to the same thing, where will all the MDs run to?  Don't they have the same thing in Europe, too? 


I just don't understand.  Will they all leave the profession?  It is because they want more money than the government will pay? 


It just all does not make sense to me.  Reading this, I am more apt to blame the doctors than the government.  They are the ones protesting the system and running away, all because they want more money. 


Please tell me if I am understanding this wrong. 


Maybe at the very least, we will get younger doctors getting into medicine for the right reasons and not so much for the big paycheck. 


But I am probably understanding this whole thing wrong.


Thanks for your reply.  I will probably read it again a couple times because it takes me a while to register things.  Thanks. 


HAPPY CANADA DAY TO ANY
OTHER CANADIAN MTS OUT THERE!!!!.
MT Companies in Canada
What part of Canada are you from?
Canada drugs
I used them. Did not seem to have any problems. I figure you do not hear of Canadians dropping dead left and right from using the medication. Saved some money.
Hello there Canada :) Here is an idea.
Spheris offers training for a price and then will place you in a position. They hire Canadian MTs.
offshoring to Canada sm
My supervisor said offshoring includes what MQ does which is "offshoring" to Canada.  Are they saving money there?
$2.73 here on Vancouver Island, BC Canada
Its $1.05 a litre and with the conversion, about $2.70 a gallon. Yikes, when will it stop going up??
Ditto on that, just did a report on a guy from Canada who came to the U.S.
surgery....would have actually died if he had waited for the doc's in Canada to operate (obstructing adenocarcinoma of the gallbladder)...he'd been told he would have to wait 3-4 weeks to even get it dealt with in Canada...so it had the brains to come here to get it done....granted he's fighting with Canadian insurance now but at least he is alive.
Your welcome, Canada :) You snowbirds keep warm up there.
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Errr...should be ~You're welcome, Canada."
dd
C*H*E*C*K in America! Eh? Don't like it? Go back to Canada!
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