Healthcare Passes Through the House

Here are the links to yahoo news and cnn.com about the situation. The cnn.com article even has a link to the entire 1990 pages of the bill in pdf format. As much as I'd like to know the details as opposed to the catch phrases that are passed around in the media, there's no way I'm going to get through reading it all.

One sad thing about the bill however, is the section that has to deal with abortion. I'm sure everyone's heard all the arguments, and everyone has their own stance on the situation and no amount of logical debate is going to change anyone's mind. But with that said, it really annoys me when people say they putting restrictions on funding for abortions is going to reduce the amount of unwanted pregnancies and through that, the amount of abortions.

Sex isn't about logic. It's about hormones and emotions. People are stupid when it comes to sex and no one is going to think, "Oh no! There's no federal funding for me to get an abortion if I get pregnant/get her pregnant! I guess we won't have unprotected sex now!" or "It feels good to have that federal funding for abortion as a back up in case this condom doesn't work, because it's only 99% effective. If that federal funding wasn't there, I don't know if I could have the courage to go through with it."

Have your reasons and your beliefs for or against abortion for whatever religious or ethical reasons you want, but trying to make a logical argument against it with this specific argument is ridiculous.

Miscellaneous Updates

H!N1 Vaccinations

I haven't been contacted yet.  And I probably won't.  Whatever happened with changing the event probably factored into it.  Perhaps shipments haven't arrived yet, perhaps the shipments were much smaller than originally hoped for, so less volunteers were needed.  Who knows.  Oh well, that would have been an interesting experience.

Pharmacy School Admissions Blog
Forum

The Pharmacy School Admissions Blog will no longer update.  As a blog.  I was enjoying the daily entries, but I understand the decision.

The reason for this change is that the one thing a blog does not easily permit is the fostering of a sense of community. It is our hope that this forum, however, will allow dialogue between the many future pharmacists who have frequented the blog.

You can read the full entry here, and of course don't forget to go directly to their forums to check it out.

Target Commercial - Pharmacy

Was watching Monk on Hulu and this commercial popped up.

"I Feel Fantastic" Music Video

 "I Feel Fantastic" Music Video

The JoCo Primer

My name is Jonathan Coulton and I’m a musician, a singer-songwriter and an internet superstar. This site is chock full of music, news and me-related merchandise

Lyrics, other videos to the song, and all kinds of stuff are on his website.  It was just something I stumbled across when looking up pharmacy stuff and it made me smile.  A nice song to listen to as I continue studying for the PTCE.

Videos about Pharmacy Technicians

The counterpart to yesterday's pharmacist videos.  Youtube is wonderful.

Pharmacy Technicians Job Description

Career Focus on Pharmacy Technicians

Pharmacy Technician Music Video - RESPECT

That's right, there was even a counterpart to the RESPECT video.  This one was made by the NPTA (National Pharmacy Technician Association).  Their website is pharmacytechnician.org.

Videos about Pharmacists

After exploring the blogosphere for a bit when it comes to pharmacy, I thought I'd check what the ever popular youtube had to offer.  The most eye catching title was a nice and simple:

Best Careers 2009: Pharmacist Job Description

Here's the accompanying article by U.S. News & World Report.  All pretty basic stuff.  (The "custom designing drugs to work with an individual's genome" sounds really cool.)

The video title that caught my eye next was titled:

Pharmacist Career Information: Pharmacist Pros & Cons

I thought it was kind of funny how she's saying a pro for being a pharmacist is that you don't have to be a pharmacist full time.  =P  Not really the greatest way to sell the profession.  I'm sure she didn't mean it to sound that way, but you can bet that I'll be sure to not word my personal statement that way.  

And last I'll close with the number one video when I typed in "pharmacy".

Pharmacy Respect

Haha.  I love it!

Healthcare Moves Forward

What does this mean?  All I really know is that it's a step closer to being passed than where it had been, but it's not there yet.  Here is a Yahoo News article explaining more about it.  How will that bill will look when it's passed?  Who knows.  What I do know is that I know very little about what's going on with the issue.  It's something that I've only been vaguely kept aware of, and something that I should be paying closer attention to (And will start doing so).  This issue will certainly affect myself and the profession of pharmacy no matter what shape it's in at the end.