Hey there! I saw your post on avoria's friending meme - we both ship Doctor/Rose, friend!ship Ten/Donna, and I love Game of Thrones too! And I was a chem major my second time through school (until I got into pharmacy school, so then I left lab-chem for drug-chem lol) =) Friends?
Ohh, pharmacy school? How's that going (since I'm kind of doing a project on drug chem, haha). Also, Secret Diary icons FTW not like I'm a little ashamed to watch that
Yup, pharmacy school! I just finished my first year, so 3 more to go (+ residency). It's going really well - I like it and am learning a ton, but it's a lot of work. We study drugs & diseases in modules, so everything is very compartmentalized for us. (Like ... if we're studying anticholinergics in one course, then we're studying typical molecular/receptor interactions and predicting drug action based on molecular shape in medchem, we're studying diseases and side effects related to those drugs in another course, etc).
What kind of project are you doing?
And I <3 Billie Piper, so yeah lol - I'll watch anything she's in! =)
3 more years and residency, augh. Is it a more specialized approach to each drug/disease and how it relates to each, without an overall idea of how it could work to each? Ohh, that sounds a lot of like what we're doing- we're basically trying to figure out the exact mechanics behind a drug that's supposed to be a narcolepsy drug, but also causes bulimic urges to cease (and according to other papers and what the company's started studies on, it may have applications to ADHD and depression?) cause basically, no one really knows what receptor it binds to. We're just plugging things into a program and letting it do the calculations while we try to figure out how to make sense of the results.
That's a basic run down, haha.
YES. BILLIE PIPER <3 I don't think I would've watched a show with that many awkward moments in it if it wasn't for her (not that it's a bad show in the least).
3 more years and residency, augh. Is it a more specialized approach to each drug/disease and how it relates to each, without an overall idea of how it could work to each?
Yeah it's pretty specialized. (Residency of course gets REALLY specialized). Our didactic education is mainly studying the pathophysiology of, say, psoriasis, and of course the treatments and drug chemistry for psoriasis, as well as how the genotype of the patients can impact the drugs of choice. We also spend not a small amount of time on triage -- because a lot of patients go undiagnosed with various diseases, then show up at the pharmacy counter to try to get an OTC treatment. So a pharmacist needs to be able to distinguish between a patient with poison ivy vs. a patient with herpes zoster.
we're basically trying to figure out the exact mechanics behind a drug that's supposed to be a narcolepsy drug, but also causes bulimic urges to cease
Haha, not a problem. I've been in the same boat for the last few days.
Triage sounds like the worst thing invented since pchem. This may or may not be helping narrow down my list of future professions down XD
It's actually not all that bad, but the process of doing it is really repetitive and boring, and we're kind of lost as to what to do with all the data we have.
Haha studying how to triage isn't actually all that bad - if you end up as a retail pharmacist though, having to DO it however might be pretty terrible rofl!! XD
Do you think you want to go into health care in general?
I mean, I can just imagine the nightmares you have to go through if you misjudge something for something else when trying to give medication XD
Maybe? The most I'd want to go into health care would be something involving modelling compounds in computers and seeing the theoretical results from it, haha. I really don't know.
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What kind of project are you doing?
And I <3 Billie Piper, so yeah lol - I'll watch anything she's in! =)
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That's a basic run down, haha.
YES. BILLIE PIPER <3 I don't think I would've watched a show with that many awkward moments in it if it wasn't for her (not that it's a bad show in the least).
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3 more years and residency, augh. Is it a more specialized approach to each drug/disease and how it relates to each, without an overall idea of how it could work to each?
Yeah it's pretty specialized. (Residency of course gets REALLY specialized). Our didactic education is mainly studying the pathophysiology of, say, psoriasis, and of course the treatments and drug chemistry for psoriasis, as well as how the genotype of the patients can impact the drugs of choice. We also spend not a small amount of time on triage -- because a lot of patients go undiagnosed with various diseases, then show up at the pharmacy counter to try to get an OTC treatment. So a pharmacist needs to be able to distinguish between a patient with poison ivy vs. a patient with herpes zoster.
we're basically trying to figure out the exact mechanics behind a drug that's supposed to be a narcolepsy drug, but also causes bulimic urges to cease
That's cool!! =D
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Triage sounds like the worst thing invented since pchem. This may or may not be helping narrow down my list of future professions down XD
It's actually not all that bad, but the process of doing it is really repetitive and boring, and we're kind of lost as to what to do with all the data we have.
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Do you think you want to go into health care in general?
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Maybe? The most I'd want to go into health care would be something involving modelling compounds in computers and seeing the theoretical results from it, haha. I really don't know.
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