Topic of Choice 2024

 During my first shadowing experience in my P1 year, I shadowed a P4 on one of their rotations in the University Hospital. Her rotation was in surgery in urology. During this experience, I was able to sit in during table rounds. It was intimidating to see this side of pharmacy initially. With all the healthcare professionals sitting at a table discussing patient cases, it seemed so fast, and I was unfamiliar with some jargon. At one point, the team asked the P4 for their recommendation on an antibiotic, and she answered right away. I was impressed by her preparedness. I also shadowed a pharmacist in Pediatric Cardiology at Motts Children's Hospital. During this experience, I saw rounds where the team walks to each patient's room, discusses the patient's cases, and sometimes talks with the parents. This pharmacy field is different because of the limited resources in pediatric cardiology medications. These experiences have increased my interest in working in an interprofessio

This year we witnessed the end of the college career of arguably the greatest female basketball player of all time and one that should be in the conversation for best basketball player of all time.   Caitlin Clark is now moving to the WNBA to finally reap the rewards of an incredible talent and years of hard work.   With Victor Wembanyama, the first draft ick in the NBA last year signing a contract that will pay him an average of around $14 million dollars, Caitlin Clark is going to be a millionaire.   Or so you may think.   Clark is actually going to make an average of 80K a year over the first three years.    Here is another number for you.   Buddy Hield is the 80 th highest paid NBA player.   He makes $19.2 million dollars a year.   That salary would cover the salaries of all WNBA players. That pay gap is not unique to basketball or sports.   The argument that the pay is linked to what the league brings in is a weak one at best.   In addition to the equality, justice and standard

https://chat.openai.com/share/3a56f9e1-8ecb-4bc5-8d04-4a0dc50b0c2a      I decided to go back to earlier in our semester when we discussed AI. I have not been the biggest fan of the recent craze regarding AI and how it is being addressed at the University. I am still a bit confused about what UMich’s stance regarding AI is. This confusion makes sense, though, because there is uncertainty about how continued AI advancement will change our lives' functionality. Nobody is quite sure what healthcare will look like in the future. AI has the potential to drastically change many aspects of healthcare, including electronic records, at-home health monitoring, surgeries, and many more. Since I did not have a specific topic in mind for this blog post, I decided to utilize AI to help me out.       I had a lovely little conversation with ChatGPT. I’m hoping you can access the entire conversation in the attached link at the beginning of this post. I would first like to mention that my chatbot was

          You might be wondering what 5-FC + Amphotericin B has anything to do with Pharmacists + AI. The answer is simple (part of which you should know for Exam 4) - both of them have the potential to act synergistically with each other.                   Regardless of the mixed opinions about AI, I personally have found it so valuable and helpful in my daily life. I have chatGPT bookmarked in my browser, and use it all the time when I don’t feel like putting my question into Google and reading through different links. AI might be something good to use in our daily lives, but what about in healthcare? It’s beginning to be used more and more, but is that a good thing? Are our jobs as pharmacists really going to be taken over by robots in the future? Best case scenario - pharmacists and AI work together in synergy to create patient-centered solutions for common healthcare problems, and this is already being done. Using AI in personalized medicine and medication adherence is already un

  In our recent class discussion on AI’s impact on healthcare, I became intrigued by its role in pharmacy practice. Specifically, I wanted to look into how AI is revolutionizing drug repurposing which is a method to find alternative uses for drugs in a faster, safer, and more cost-effective way. One notable drug repurpose I was able to find was when researchers were finding treatments for COVID-19. Due to the COVID-19 cases rising so quickly, a solution had to be figured out fast, so researchers turned to AI to explore potential drug options to treat the virus. The AI pulled data from PubMed and DrugBank databases, it then went through large amounts of data and thousands of drugs, and generated a list of 41 potential drugs that could be effective. This way, researchers are able to spend more time investigating those drugs and truly identify an effective treatment instead of trying to narrow down thousands of drugs by themselves. A few drugs on this list were dexamet

  For my topic, I wanted to look more in depth into religious beliefs that impact medical treatment, including the choice to abstain from certain aspects of care, as well as the ability to file a religious exemption for life-saving medical procedures. First, I looked into why Jehovah’s Witnesses do not accept blood transfusions, as this was something briefly mentioned in class. According to their website, Jehovah’s Witnesses abstain from blood transfusions because the Bible directly states to do so in four places. They also “avoid taking blood not only in obedience to God but also out of respect for him as the Giver of Life”. Many differences between sects come from varying interpretations of religious texts. Here, they are taking a literal interpretation of passages such as Genesis 9:4, “ Only flesh with its life – its blood – you must not eat”. Most JWs refuse whole blood and its components, as it is seen as a sin, but they do take infusions derived from blood, such as albumin. I als