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Each issue will include an editorial on a topic that is important for the profession of pharmacy, as well as a review of a new drug that includes a comparison of the new drug with previously marketed drugs that are most similar in activity, and a New Drug Comparison Rating (NDCR) for the new drug. Read on for this month's issue. December 2009 Issue • Feature • Congratulations and Appreciation! • Editor's Note • New therapeutic agents marketed in the United States in 2009 • The Top 10 New Drugs of the Decade (Millenium) • Index for Volume 4, 2009 Click Here to download PDF format [To Top] the prospering merchant the pious priest the strident, bitter, hopeless slaves; -each well-engrossed within himself preparing for the night. Few noticed. None cared for the dusty, worried carpenter and his pain-bewildered wife. Thus it was the Creator came down- oxen, donkeys, perhaps a stable-hand beheld the birth of the Prince of Peace. God's Witnesses The players change -new names appear, and yet men earn and learn and strive and serve and grimly long for peace. While the Prince of Peace still waits arms full of gifts for suffering men whose wants needs works piety leave little room or time for Him whose rule alone can bring peace to soul or home or world But still He waits and knocks beneath a glowing sign NO VACANCY *by Carlyle L. Saylor [To Top] For many years pharmacists ranked first in the annual Gallup polls in which participants were asked to rate individuals in various professions/vocations with respect to honesty and ethical standards. When nurses were added to the professionals being rated, pharmacists have consistently ranked second to nurses. The results of the 2009 Gallup poll have recently been announced. Pharmacists ranked second, following nurses, among the 22 professions/vocations identified in the survey. Approximately two-thirds of respondents rated pharmacists "very high" or "high" when asked about their honesty and ethical standards. It is the pharmacists who are on the "front-lines" of practice who have the visibility and are known to those responding in such a positive manner in these polls. All of us in the profession of pharmacy are the beneficiaries of their excellent example and services to their patients and communities. We congratulate them and express our appreciation for their commitment to the highest professional and personal standards that has brought this recognition to our profession! A recent example illustrates this commitment so well. Henrietta (Henny) and Dave Cole have owned a Medicine Shoppe in a Philadelphia suburb for 32 years. In a letter that he sent me that accompanied a gift in support of our White Coat Ceremony for our students, Dave made the following observations: "Recently, an oncologist from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania called Henny and told her that he has never had a pharmacy treat his patients with such professionalism and caring. One of these patients who is dying from pancreatic cancer brought her roses for her efforts in helping him cope with his disease. That makes it all worthwhile." Daniel A. Hussar With this issue we mark the completion of the fourth year of publication of The Pharmacist Activist (all issues are available on the website, www.pharmacistactivist.com). The comments I receive from readers have been very gratifying and informative, and my only regret is that I am not able to respond to all of them on an individual basis. If you know pharmacists and pharmacy students who are not presently receiving this publication, please encourage them to go on the website and sign up to receive it. NEWS-Line Publishing produces this newsletter at its cost, and I do not receive compensation for my responsibility as author/editor. However, there are considerable expenses in producing it and I wish to express my appreciation to my friend who is committed to the provision of editorial commentary that will stimulate discussion/debate, as well as objective information on new drugs, and who has provided financial support. I also wish to express my personal appreciation to Jeff Zajac, Chris Polli, Patrick Polli, John Buck, and Joe Monte for their expertise and enthusiasm in publishing The Pharmacist Activist. Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas season and a healthy and enjoyable new year! Daniel A. Hussar Daniel A. Hussar
Editor's Note: All issues of Volumes 1 (2006), 2 (2007), 3 (2008), and 4 (2009) of The Pharmacist Activist are available without charge at www.pharmacistactivist.com. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
