Registered Pharmacist || Yoruba || Humanist
Ikirun, Nigeria
Joined September 2012
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My views are drawn from looking at what the people the health system serves need, based on the capabilities, limitations, and “evolvability” of my profession, and total respect for other healthcare professionals.
In that order 🟢
One day like that, I told myself, this isn’t for me 😂
I love Snapchat though, that memories >>>>>
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For pharmacists, the final question will be “This millions that I have, should I use it to build here or use it to get there?”
Paul Tobi, RPh retweeted
8 years and it’s still day 1 with one of my favorite humans of #Pharmily
2018- BBC’s launch of her investigative report on codein abuse in Nigeria. @isacisse was building BokonArewa & a hotel complex at the time, I was serving term as EiC at @PSNnational
2026- #Ijele2026 Pharmacist Isa now runs the President’s office and I’m privileged to be volunteering as PSN-WASPEN co-lead with Dr Teresa Pounds.
Cheers to a new pharmaceutical year.
Paul Tobi, RPh retweeted
Her story is genuinely one of the most beautiful and inspiring things I have read this year, tbh.
Studying Medicine and Surgery and becoming a doctor while navigating life with cerebral palsy? That's extraordinary af.
Paul Tobi, RPh retweeted
The biggest failure in this story is the total lack of direct communication between the professionals.
Instead of sending an anxious mother back and forth as a messenger to argue over a prescription, a simple phone call between the clinic and the pharmacy would have resolved the issue in two minutes.
When communication breaks down within a hospital, it is the patient and their family that suffer the unnecessary panic and confusion.
This lady said a doctor prescribed medication for her baby and asked her to purchase it from a pharmacy. However, the pharmacist refused to sell it, saying the prescribed dosage was too high for the baby.
She said she took the prescription back to the doctor, but he sent her back to the pharmacy. The pharmacist still refused to dispense the medication.
She eventually took a picture of the prescription and sent it to a friend who is also a doctor. He was shocked and warned her not to buy the medication because the prescribed dosage was too high for her baby.
~ A lady shares her disturbing experience.
Once you finish this part, you are already leading Community Pharmacy and even the Nigerian Healthcare system 3:0
This is only efficient and effective after you graduate sha. If you go read am in-depth as a pharmacy student, OYO lo wa 😅😅
As a pharmacist, I will always say three areas are non-negotiable:
- Infectious Diseases
- Cardiovascular Diseases, particularly Hypertension
- Diabetes Mellitus
Learn the pharmacotherapy deeply enough to manage medications across their entire lifecycle. You need a good understanding of the pathophysiology, but an even deeper understanding of the pharmacotherapy.
These are conditions where medication management is a significant part of patient care, and you need to understand the rationale behind drug selection, dosing, combinations, contraindications, interactions, monitoring, treatment adjustments and so on.
You can frolick with any other niche and expand your knowledge as much as you like.
But one thing I am certain of is that you cannot know everything about even the first one, talk less of all three. 😅
As a pharmacist, I will always say three areas are non-negotiable:
- Infectious Diseases
- Cardiovascular Diseases, particularly Hypertension
- Diabetes Mellitus
Learn the pharmacotherapy deeply enough to manage medications across their entire lifecycle. You need a good understanding of the pathophysiology, but an even deeper understanding of the pharmacotherapy.
These are conditions where medication management is a significant part of patient care, and you need to understand the rationale behind drug selection, dosing, combinations, contraindications, interactions, monitoring, treatment adjustments and so on.
You can frolick with any other niche and expand your knowledge as much as you like.
But one thing I am certain of is that you cannot know everything about even the first one, talk less of all three. 😅
Paul Tobi, RPh retweeted
Happy birthday to my dear brother, Ayobami @dondekojo. Brilliant, smart, loyal and dependable. I wish you all the great things you wish for yourself and more.
Paul Tobi, RPh retweeted
One of the things that ruin our reputation as women, wives, and mothers is the need to come to social media to prove, with our words, that we are in charge.
You want to tell the world how you run your home, how your husband succumbs to your whims and caprices, and how you always get what you want.
You want to tell us that you are not being walked over in your house. A house that a man put you in.
You want to run your husband down to appear woke.
May you not be the reason your reputation and that of your husband are dragged through the mud.
Some things are not for public consumption.
You do not use your marriage to prove a point to strangers online.
You were born wise. Activate it.
I can remember the last “dispense as such” I got. It was as an intern.
After that, I told myself never again. 😅
Like, never again.
I must understand the clinical rationale too, and if it is not justifiable, I won’t agree.
Another person (I hope it won’t be a pharmacist) can fill the prescription.
Never will it be me. 😅
That is a common scenario in community pharmacy BTW 😅
This lady said a doctor prescribed medication for her baby and asked her to purchase it from a pharmacy. However, the pharmacist refused to sell it, saying the prescribed dosage was too high for the baby.
She said she took the prescription back to the doctor, but he sent her back to the pharmacy. The pharmacist still refused to dispense the medication.
She eventually took a picture of the prescription and sent it to a friend who is also a doctor. He was shocked and warned her not to buy the medication because the prescribed dosage was too high for her baby.
~ A lady shares her disturbing experience.
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Congratulations,
latest MBBS Gregory University Doctors,
Welcome to our Hippocratic World. 💪🏽
E get many things wey I just learn this year sha.
Many positives and of course many negatives.
E get things wey be say na experience go teach you 😅😅
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