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Pharmacy 50 Awards Ceremony Part Two | Winners 36 through 25 · Pharmacy Podcast Network

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
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Speaker 4: Hey, this is Todd.
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Speaker 2: You're a founder of the Pharmacy Podcast Network. You are
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Speaker 2: listening to a special four part series dedicated to the
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Speaker 2: fifty most influential people in pharmacy. This was the Pharmacy
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Speaker 2: Fifty Awards that came out on January sixteenth, and I'm
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Speaker 2: so excited to share with this with you. Some of
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Speaker 2: the most innovative people in pharmacy. Part of this series
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Speaker 2: you're listening to part two.
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Speaker 5: Let's go.
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Speaker 2: All right, Tara, she is a rock star North Charleston,
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Speaker 2: South Carolina, doctor Tarah David. She runs her own business
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Speaker 2: in holistic medicine called the Rooted Pharmacy. She really digs
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Speaker 2: into how to how to balance the pharmaceutical world with
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Speaker 2: the natural world. I'm seeing a huge Doctor Marina Boscoev
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Speaker 2: is one of our podcasters on the Pharmacy Podcast Network,
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Speaker 2: and she talks all about holistic medicine and how to
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Speaker 2: balance that in life. And that's a that's a big
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Speaker 2: future not only for individual community, individual consultant pharmacist, but
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Speaker 2: also community pharmacy.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know the word that you use, that really
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Speaker 6: caught me. There is said that she digs in to it.
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Speaker 6: So it's pretty pretty good statement for rooted pharmacy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's true.
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Speaker 5: You didn't know that you did that.
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Speaker 2: I did not know I made that put all right,
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Speaker 2: we're being on with the list number thirty five. No
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Speaker 2: stranger to this group because he's a personal friend of mine,
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Speaker 2: doctor Chris Antipas. He's a he's a personal friend of
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Speaker 2: John to James as well.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 4: He is a superstar.
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Speaker 2: I listed him as specially pharmacy because he is a
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Speaker 2: founder of Paragon Pharmacy three sixty. But he could have
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Speaker 2: made probably six of the of the ten categories.
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Speaker 7: I don't even know where to start with Chris, so
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Speaker 7: we keep throwing out the word diversification. You know, he's
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Speaker 7: partnered with d Nasty. He owns a very successful retail pharmacy,
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Speaker 7: ASTs pharmacy, paragone three sixty. You know, he used to
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Speaker 7: have a specialty company called The Late Day. He parlayed
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Speaker 7: that into paragone three sixty. That does a lot more
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Speaker 7: than just specialty. He has cold RX, which you know,
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Speaker 7: that's his long term care, and he has calm sterile
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Speaker 7: compounding there. Chris is the epitome of a I just
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Speaker 7: don't know how. I don't He doesn't have twenty four
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Speaker 7: hours in the day. He has at least thirty six
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Speaker 7: hours in a day. He is always working. He's probably
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Speaker 7: on four or five boards for companies. At the end
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Speaker 7: of the day, he always gives you year his time.
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Speaker 7: Just excited. He's you know, value drug accounts. He's right
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Speaker 7: in my backyard. I remember chrism he was a student
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Speaker 7: at the University of Pittsburgh. It's just and he's always
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Speaker 7: giving back, so even as busy as he is, it's
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Speaker 7: one of the great It's probably one of his greatest attributes.
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Speaker 6: Definitely seems to be an attribute of pharmacists in general,
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Speaker 6: is their willingness to truly give and give back, because
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Speaker 6: you really got to have that core to who you are,
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Speaker 6: I think, to be in this business. And it sounds
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Speaker 6: like he kind of had a built in NBA already
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Speaker 6: in his brain before he finished pharmacy school.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just his entrepreneurial spirit is drive. But also
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Speaker 2: I sat with him at a primanny. I was having
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Speaker 2: a primanea sandwich. Someone came up with a dex comp
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Speaker 2: or it was. It was some kind of device they
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Speaker 2: were wearing. He asked about it. They started into a
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Speaker 2: conversation and he ended up giving them complete free advice
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Speaker 2: right there on the spot of how to save money
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Speaker 2: and what to look out for. And because of all
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Speaker 2: the free advice he was giving, he ended up my
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Speaker 2: I think picking her up as a customer.
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Speaker 4: As a client.
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Speaker 6: That does not surprise me, okay at all. Be good
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Speaker 6: to people, it comes back tenfold.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, very true.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Chris, and congratulations for making this list several times.
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Speaker 4: Very proud of you.
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Speaker 5: Hey.
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Speaker 4: Doctor Mac is known throughout the world.
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Speaker 2: He made USA today during the pandemic as the superman
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Speaker 2: pharmacist and he is out of the Philadelphia area with
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Speaker 2: Skippack Pharmacy. He's ranked coming in at number thirty four.
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Speaker 2: Mayak Amn. Doctor Min is a passionate, just a warm person.
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Speaker 2: He looks you in the eye. He cares about you.
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Speaker 2: He textes me just asking me how I'm doing. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: how do you have all this time to just text
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Speaker 2: somebody out of the blue? One of the most sincere
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Speaker 2: people that I know and one of the strongest pharm
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Speaker 2: independent pharmacy players.
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Speaker 4: John, you know this guy.
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Speaker 7: Once again, I feel like the deck is stacked here
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Speaker 7: because he's another value drug account that I can recognize.
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Speaker 7: But you know, the secret about Mac is and we've
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Speaker 7: talked about marketing. Mac is phenomenal with marketing. You know,
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Speaker 7: Mac went back into the community where the community had
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Speaker 7: shut down the pharmacy and he had repurchased the pharmacy
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Speaker 7: probably two or three years after he had closed. He
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Speaker 7: was a welcome addition back into that neighborhood. And you know,
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Speaker 7: he has sense just you know, through social media and marketing.
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Speaker 7: You know, skip back is everyone knows who he is.
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Speaker 7: I mean, he was whatever on Good Morning America. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: he was on so many national programs, and all he
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Speaker 7: did was delivered COVID literally got COVID vaccine delivered. It
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Speaker 7: was created enough because he turned into Superman. Yeah, and
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Speaker 7: you know after that, it was you know, at first
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Speaker 7: you think what's going on? But guess what it really
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Speaker 7: worked for him.
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Speaker 5: Think of all the sub stories we're get.
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Speaker 6: Somebody that goes back into a community that lost their
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Speaker 6: pharmacy as willing to take the risk to bring it back.
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Speaker 6: Takes his business savvy along with his small his ability
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Speaker 6: to be a pharmacist, and packages together in a way
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Speaker 6: I mean very very dynamic people. You know, I think
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Speaker 6: a lot of lay people sometimes think that people go
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Speaker 6: to pharmacy school to learn a few chemical names and
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Speaker 6: be able to count pills. And that's the farthest thing
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Speaker 6: from the truth. But you guys could speak to that
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Speaker 6: better than I can. Well, you gotta have you gotta
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Speaker 6: have fun with it.
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Speaker 7: And you know, one of the greatest things is, you know,
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Speaker 7: any any adolescent or child that has to get a vaccine.
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Speaker 7: They looked at mac as they thought he was a
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Speaker 7: super exact. Yeah, so the super a superhero.
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Speaker 5: Was giving me my shots. So I mean, just you know, he.
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Speaker 2: Was given out, he was given out t shirts, he
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Speaker 2: was given up like little toys and candy bags and
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Speaker 2: just things to get the kids involved. And I just
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Speaker 2: I'm just so impressed with him. Shout out to you, brother,
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Speaker 2: doctor Aman. I can't wait to see one of the
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Speaker 2: pharmacy conferences. Hey, we'll be right back with more twerks.
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Speaker 1: The Pharmacy Podcast Network and the Pharmacy fifty Awards would
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Speaker 2: Hey we are back Pharmacy fifty Awards twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 4: I sound like Barbara Walter's twenty twenty. It's it's twenty
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Speaker 4: twenty five.
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Speaker 2: We have a special person that I know who's a fighter.
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Speaker 2: I certainly wouldn't want to be on her bad side.
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Speaker 2: She is absolutely incredible. She's an independent pharmacy owner over
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Speaker 2: at Davis City Pharmacy, Brandy Chain. Like I said, I
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Speaker 2: if you are going into a fight and you want
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Speaker 2: someone to join you and be strategic. She's with Pharmacists
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Speaker 2: United for Truth and Transparency. She's been on their board
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Speaker 2: for years and really helping that to go. I'd like
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Speaker 2: to welcome to the Pharmacy Fifty Awards Brandy Chain.
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Speaker 8: Welcome, Hey guys, how's it going.
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Speaker 4: It's good to see you, and thanks so much for
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Speaker 4: doing this.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, this is really exciting. It's a huge
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Speaker 3: honor to be included again.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely tell us about what it is to be influential,
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Speaker 2: like why you keep making this list, Brandon, I don't know.
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Speaker 8: You know, I'll tell you.
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Speaker 3: Whenever I bought my pharmacy, I started in the nursing world,
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Speaker 3: I bought my pharmacy, and whenever I got into it,
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Speaker 3: I had no idea what the heck I was getting
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Speaker 3: into and quickly learned that this was a fight that
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Speaker 3: I needed to jump into if I wanted to one say,
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Speaker 3: my pharmacy, and two I just needed to just know
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Speaker 3: what the heck was going on. And you know, I
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Speaker 3: knew that I had a lot of questions, and the
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Speaker 3: more questions that came up, I realized, you know, getting
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Speaker 3: into the advocacy side, I could do that and and
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Speaker 3: I wanted to do that. And as time has gone
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Speaker 3: on and Putt has welcomed me into the ranks and
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Speaker 3: taught me so much. And you know, like you said,
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Speaker 3: if there's a fight, put me in coach, I'm ready
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Speaker 3: to go.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, I would not want to be on
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Speaker 2: the other side fighting with you. You're you're so articulate.
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Speaker 2: You taught me so much when we met up at Washington,
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Speaker 2: d C. And just updating us what was going on
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Speaker 2: and the fight for communities health and and and how
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Speaker 2: important it is to have a passionate pharmacists or passionate
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Speaker 2: pharmacy owners out there like you are, Brandy, and you know,
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Speaker 2: thank you for what you do. Please schedule time with
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Speaker 2: us on twerks. Let's get back in and let's dig
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Speaker 2: into some of the struggles that you go through. But
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Speaker 2: also success stories come come, bring us success stories doing Yeah, you.
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Speaker 3: Know, one of the things that I think is so important,
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Speaker 3: and this is this is what my dream is, is
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Speaker 3: that we're going to continue building out this amazing network
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Speaker 3: of advocates, pharmacy owners, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians. This is this
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Speaker 3: is where I think that we as community pharmacy owners.
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Speaker 8: Where we really we need to step up.
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Speaker 3: And you know, there's a lot of different ways that
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Speaker 3: you can be involved. You don't have to be going
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Speaker 3: to your state capital, you don't have to be going
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Speaker 3: to d C. But there's a lot of ways that
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Speaker 3: you can be involved, and I think so many times
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Speaker 3: people just don't know how to do it.
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Speaker 8: So that's definitely a big.
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Speaker 3: Focus that we're going to have this year is building
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Speaker 3: out our little army of advocates and arming them with
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Speaker 3: the proper tools so that they can go and they
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Speaker 3: can do you know, they can talk to anyone and
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Speaker 3: they can be articulate about it and they can feel
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Speaker 3: confident in doing so.
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Speaker 8: So I'm really excited for the future and legislation that's happening.
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Speaker 8: I mean, there's such a huge push. It's so exciting,
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Speaker 8: you know.
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Speaker 6: Don I just want to say thing. I think Brandy
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Speaker 6: made a really good point. First of all, there's two things,
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Speaker 6: and I would add one thing to what she said.
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Speaker 6: First of all, horizontal networking, horizontal netwing through pharmacy at
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Speaker 6: all the different things. But then once that is established
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Speaker 6: and that gets stronger, then the next step is vertical
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Speaker 6: integration and networking, and that means we really need to
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Speaker 6: make sure that we understand and we got people in
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Speaker 6: this room coming from all aspects of the value chain
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Speaker 6: of healthcare, right, so we need to continue to work
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Speaker 6: up industry.
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Speaker 5: Pharmaceutical industry needs to be working with pharmacists.
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Speaker 6: That's one area that I've always advocated for that as
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Speaker 6: an industry don't do enough. I want to hear more
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Speaker 6: from the pharmacist. And not that the physician is not
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Speaker 6: important in everybody else, but we spend so much time
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Speaker 6: there and we forget. So my encouragement to everybody's continue
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Speaker 6: to do exactly what Brandy said, can continuet connect horizontally
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Speaker 6: and then start working vertically. And when you do those
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Speaker 6: two things together, a lot of great things are going
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Speaker 6: to come out of that.
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Speaker 2: I love it, Brandy. I want to say congratulate, so
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Speaker 2: proud of you. Keep fighting. You have our platform when
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Speaker 2: you need it to jump on and talk about something.
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Speaker 2: But I would love to work with you more in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. So thank you and congratulations.
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Speaker 8: In congratulations to everyone else. It's an amazing loost, super cool.
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Speaker 4: Thank you Taltor.
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Speaker 2: All right, we are moving right along. We have coming
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Speaker 2: in at number thirty two. Mister Andy Crawford, vice president
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Speaker 2: of sales and Marketing at key Source. We have him
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Speaker 2: in the independent pharmacy category. However, key Source is more
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Speaker 2: than just independent pharmacy. They're doing specialty and health system pharmacy.
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Speaker 2: But Andy is infectious. I love being around him. He
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Speaker 2: constantly talks good business advice and strategy and different things,
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Speaker 2: not just in pharmacy, but he has a growing real
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Speaker 2: estate venture that brings in multiple people that invest in
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Speaker 2: different properties, and you have to be candidate kind of
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Speaker 2: get involved in what he's doing. But I've learned a
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Speaker 2: lot from Andy. He's become a friend of mine, and
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Speaker 2: also key Source has supported Pharmacy Podcast Network with a series,
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Speaker 2: so really good to have him on this list.
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Speaker 6: Well case there's actually a customers of ours and we've
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Speaker 6: worked with them again really around a dialogue about education
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Speaker 6: and delivery of what we do into pharmacy. So people
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Speaker 6: like Andy have been very, very helpful to us in
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Speaker 6: terms of how we've shaped out a lot of what
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Speaker 6: we do in terms of our investing back into the community.
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Speaker 6: So thanks and congratulations to Andy.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Next up Pharmacy fifty coming in at thirty one. Doctor
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Speaker 2: Kelly Carlstrom. She's founder and CEO of Kelly C. Farm
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Speaker 2: D And we put her in the social media influencer category.
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Speaker 2: I originally put her in specialty and she reached out.
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Speaker 2: She's like not really specialty, kind of as an oncology expert,
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Speaker 2: but nonetheless she's also a consultant that will teach other
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Speaker 2: pharmacists to kind of get deeper into consultancy in the
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Speaker 2: space of ecology. And she is just a deep reservoir
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Speaker 2: of information in the oncology space and assisting physicians dig
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Speaker 2: down into that, really filling that clinical gaps that physicians
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Speaker 2: may not know all about the outcomes of different stages
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Speaker 2: of treatment. And we need more pharmacists to dig in
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Speaker 2: like that. So congratulations to Kelly for making the Pharmacy
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Speaker 2: fifty List twenty twenty five. All right, we have an
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Speaker 2: independent community pharmacy coming back to the list. This guy's
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Speaker 2: been on several times. He is, I can say, a
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Speaker 2: friend of mine and someone who I really admire. I'd
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Speaker 2: like to welcome to twerus and the Pharmacy fifty Awards
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Speaker 2: mister d Brand.
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Speaker 4: Welcome, Dave. How are you?
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Speaker 9: I'm doing good? The power just came back on. We've
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Speaker 9: got fifty to sixty mile an hour winds. We've had
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Speaker 9: no power for probably the last hour and so I'm
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Speaker 9: literally using a hotspot and my tablet to be on.
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Speaker 2: So we could have thrown you in the social media
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Speaker 2: category two because you do so much on social media.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we definitely try to. I really have grown to
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Speaker 9: enjoy that and it's been a lot of fun to
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Speaker 9: get into that and expand our footprint as a pharmacy
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Speaker 9: as well as to get the word out about pharmacy
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Speaker 9: as a profession that we're not earlier. You know, it
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Speaker 9: was mentioned we're not just counting and pouring back there
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Speaker 9: and that's all we do is no chemical names and
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Speaker 9: things like that. So that's that's been a good aspect
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Speaker 9: as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, talk to us about advocacy as well, because you
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Speaker 2: are deeply involved with state organizations as well as the NCPA,
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Speaker 2: and you're member of IPC and your work with guidance
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Speaker 2: to other pharmacy owners. Talk to us about what it
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Speaker 2: means to be influencer. An influencer because you've been on
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Speaker 2: this list how many times now.
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Speaker 4: Twice now two times?
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Speaker 5: See, well, thank you.
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Speaker 9: It's very important for pharmacist technicians and students as well
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Speaker 9: and patients too, if we can get our patients to talk,
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Speaker 9: because when you have, you know, a thousand pharmacists complaining,
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Speaker 9: they go, oh, it's just a pharmacist. But if you
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Speaker 9: have a thousand pharmacists and a couple thousand patients, they go,
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Speaker 9: wait a second, what's the issue here? And it's important
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Speaker 9: at the state and federal level. It's Nebraska. We're having
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Speaker 9: our first legislative day coming up the first week of February,
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Speaker 9: and I'm excited to go down and be part of that.
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Speaker 2: So well, we appreciate you stopping by. I want to
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Speaker 2: say congratulations. I can't wait to see you out probably
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Speaker 2: at the NCPA and get you back on the show.
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Speaker 9: All right, sounds good, Thank you very much, and congratulations
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Speaker 9: everyone else.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations and thank you all right. Moving right along to
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Speaker 2: number twenty nine, and once again somebody that I've worked
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Speaker 2: with more in twenty twenty five than ever. He's taught
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Speaker 2: me a lot about what's going on in legislature for
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Speaker 2: PBM reform. He is the general counsel for APCI and
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Speaker 2: he is also the host of the PBM Reform PBM
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Speaker 2: Reform podcast on the Pharmacy Podcast Network. Congratulations to Greg
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Speaker 2: Ribled for making the list this year, and I think
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Speaker 2: this is his second time on the list.
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Speaker 5: Actually, well, you know.
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Speaker 6: It's other things cool about this is that we're seeing
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Speaker 6: the diversity within pharmacy, and we're seeing the kind of
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Speaker 6: the ecostructure around pharmacy with people like Greg, and it
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Speaker 6: tells you how complicated and dynamic we fight. We have
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Speaker 6: to continue to improve the delivery healthcare in the US
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Speaker 6: and I think anybody, whether pharmacy, patient, manufacturer, we all
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Speaker 6: know there's challenges in our system and we need to
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Speaker 6: continue to find the ways to fix them make them better,
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Speaker 6: so the ultimately patient care is optimized in the United States.
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Speaker 6: And we got a long way to go, but it's
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Speaker 6: things like this that will take those baby steps towards
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Speaker 6: improving it.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations Greg, We will talk soon, all right. Number twenty
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Speaker 2: eight Mark Dooman. Once again the expansion of this awards program.
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Speaker 2: The reach of the Pharmacy Podcast network is global, and
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Speaker 2: Mark is in technology. He is with MD health Care
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Speaker 2: Consultants and he's from Salford, New England, the United Kingdom.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know where Salford, England is at, but
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Speaker 2: guess what it's on the Pharmacy the Pharmacy fifty list
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Speaker 2: this year, so awesome.
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Speaker 4: Mark.
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Speaker 2: We'll be reaching out to you to do a twerks.
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Speaker 2: We want to hear more about MD health Consultants and
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Speaker 2: moving to a returning Pharmacy fifty award winner, doctor Christopher
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Speaker 2: Bowens from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Health System
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Speaker 2: Hospital category, coming in at twenty seven.
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Speaker 4: I want to.
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Speaker 2: Welcome Christopher to the show. It is so good to
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Speaker 2: see you in person instead of just for LinkedIn. We're
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Speaker 2: constantly talking on LinkedIn, Chris, but it's nice.
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Speaker 4: To see here. It's nice to see you too.
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Speaker 10: Hey there, everybody, congratulations, Well, thank you and thank you
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Speaker 10: for announcing doing all this award presentation and acknowledging our
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Speaker 10: profession and everything you do, it goes a long way
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Speaker 10: and it really helps.
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Speaker 4: Well. Thank you. With the passion of mine.
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Speaker 2: I entered pharmacy in two thousand and four, Christen, I
21:10
Speaker 2: learned that pharmacists were not good at marketing themselves. They
21:13
Speaker 2: weren't good at getting their message out per se, because
21:16
Speaker 2: they're just too busy. You guys are too busy taking
21:18
Speaker 2: care of patients. So having talent and having passion to
21:22
Speaker 2: get and amplify the voice of our pharmacists. That's what
21:25
Speaker 2: started the Pharmacy podcast network and people like you that
21:29
Speaker 2: are teaching and consulting and working with seniors. It's a
21:33
Speaker 2: big deal to have you here, Christopher. You have to
21:36
Speaker 2: promise me that you're going to come on TRK sometimes
21:38
Speaker 2: so we can really dig down into what you do
21:40
Speaker 2: every day. But just to tease us, is your favorite
21:44
Speaker 2: NFL team still in the playoffs or yes or not?
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Speaker 10: No, I'm gonna eat a Philadelphia Eagles fan.
21:53
Speaker 5: That's okay, that's okay, You're good. You got to be careful.
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Speaker 7: There's a are in the cry yea.
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Speaker 6: As a Browns fan, this is the only enjoyment we
22:07
Speaker 6: get nowadays is to tease our Steeler.
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Speaker 5: You had Kenny Pickett. Be glad you got that. Yeah,
22:12
Speaker 5: we didn't even keep him long.
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Speaker 2: That's crazy to talk to me about Nashville, Tennessee and
22:20
Speaker 2: and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Speaker 4: What do you want to see in the industry?
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Speaker 5: Happened?
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Speaker 4: Chris?
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Speaker 5: So?
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Speaker 10: My thing is, uh, I think what I want to
22:33
Speaker 10: see in the industry for the most part, is just
22:35
Speaker 10: helping move the needle. That's why I'm heavily involved in
22:39
Speaker 10: the different organizations that I am in t p A
22:43
Speaker 10: at a state level, a p h A at a
22:45
Speaker 10: national level. I think one of the big things is,
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Speaker 10: I think we're an untapped potential that you know, hasn't
22:56
Speaker 10: been fully resourced and used. And you know, I think
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Speaker 10: advocating what we can do, you know, for a profess
23:06
Speaker 10: our profession at the state and at national level, our
23:10
Speaker 10: clinical expertise is hopefully recognized by policymakers. And it's people
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Speaker 10: like you guys that help, you know, amplify our voices
23:19
Speaker 10: and helps carry it and just kind of do those
23:23
Speaker 10: kind of things.
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Speaker 6: I think he just gave us the tagline all the
23:27
Speaker 6: stuff that we've been talking about pharmacy, it really comes
23:30
Speaker 6: down to is untapped potential.
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Speaker 4: That's so true.
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Speaker 5: That's absolutely awesome.
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for stopping in and spending time
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Speaker 4: with us. Chris.
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Speaker 2: Promise me you're going to schedule some twerks with me
23:42
Speaker 2: and so we can get out there in twerks and
23:43
Speaker 2: I won't make it twerks unless you want to, but.
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Speaker 4: Not I don't want a tork right now. Congratulations, by
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Speaker 4: the way, Oh thank you.
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Speaker 2: All right, moving on, we are getting into the mid
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Speaker 2: twenties and we have at number twenty six, Emily Durham
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Speaker 2: with Covert Covert Trusts, and it's a compounding pharmacy and
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Speaker 2: she's a season compounding business development professional, two decades of
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Speaker 2: experience and really digging down into the need for the
24:19
Speaker 2: expansion of compounding. I'm so excited that the Alliance for
24:23
Speaker 2: Pharmacy Compounding has joined the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
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Speaker 4: Now we get a lot of content from.
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Speaker 2: Them, that's part of the committees that Emily is on,
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Speaker 2: and it's just good to see that we're paying more
24:35
Speaker 2: attention to this facet of pharmacy and the importance of it.
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Speaker 6: Well, I agree, and I turn to our good colleague
24:41
Speaker 6: over here to comment in a second, But I think
24:43
Speaker 6: compounding pharmacy is always kind of a little bit of
24:45
Speaker 6: a mystery to most people, but very important. But Dave,
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Speaker 6: how would you put what's your perspective on compounding pharmacy.
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Speaker 7: Well, there's just because of where we're sitting, there's several
24:55
Speaker 7: in the area. It's a vital part of when you
24:58
Speaker 7: can't get that formulation made at your regular pharmacy, and
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Speaker 7: when you think about the physician practice groups that actually
25:04
Speaker 7: they push it out to the compounders, you know, you
25:07
Speaker 7: can't you think sometimes of dosing forms, even for pediatrics.
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Speaker 7: You know, you can go to a compounding pharmacy to
25:14
Speaker 7: get that dosing form so it can get it that
25:16
Speaker 7: medicine can actually get into your you know, your son,
25:18
Speaker 7: your daughter. I just think of some of the women's
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Speaker 7: health is huge in compounding. You know, you're just not
25:25
Speaker 7: going to find out a traditional community. You need people
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Speaker 7: like Emily in the community. You know, we've been blessed
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Speaker 7: in the Western Pennsylvania area with several phenomenal compounders. You know,
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Speaker 7: I just think that's that's one part of pharmacy. The
25:38
Speaker 7: general public does not know where do you think it's
25:41
Speaker 7: going to go? Well, you know, it's the talk has
25:44
Speaker 7: always been about, you know, more refined medicine down to
25:47
Speaker 7: the individual, like nutraceuticals, straight down to you. Hey, you
25:52
Speaker 7: got your your face has dry skin. I'm going to
25:55
Speaker 7: make something based off of your chemical composure. It's never
25:59
Speaker 7: gotten there yet, you know, I've probably been talking to
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Speaker 7: in about fifteen years. Probably the biggest thing is the
26:05
Speaker 7: willingness to pay, and the second one is the willingness
26:09
Speaker 7: for insurance to accept payment from a compounding pharmacy. So
26:13
Speaker 7: everyone goes out the green. They go outside the box
26:16
Speaker 7: when they have to get some. At the end of
26:18
Speaker 7: the day, if you have an illment or you have
26:20
Speaker 7: whatever it is, does these state that needs treated. If
26:23
Speaker 7: I can't get that at the local pharmacy and whatever
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Speaker 7: formulation is, the solution is go get a compound.
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Speaker 5: Try it exactly so customization.
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Speaker 7: That's exactly what it comes down to on an individual level,
26:35
Speaker 7: well said.
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Speaker 2: Well, congratulations, Emily, Please reach out. We want to talk
26:39
Speaker 2: to you more about compounding and from what you're doing
26:42
Speaker 2: over at convert Convetress. Convetress, I can't say things. Listen,
26:47
Speaker 2: I'm not a pharmacist, not even out of pronounced the
26:49
Speaker 2: drug names. Hey, listen. The realm of social media once again,
26:53
Speaker 2: the number one section that got the most votes was
26:56
Speaker 2: social media influencer doctor Wallerter or Son Yer and he
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Speaker 2: is known as the Fit Pharmacist hundreds of thousands of
27:05
Speaker 2: followers impact. But the reason why he's so successful is
27:10
Speaker 2: he does it with so much humor. I don't know
27:12
Speaker 2: if either of you have ever seen some of his
27:15
Speaker 2: stuff on TikTok or Instagram, but he is one of
27:17
Speaker 2: the funniest people I've ever met. He's so intelligent, he's
27:22
Speaker 2: extremely tall, makes me once again feeling small again.
27:24
Speaker 4: And he is. He's just on it.
27:27
Speaker 2: Like he's I can't believe how fast he'll put content out,
27:30
Speaker 2: something will happen in the news, and then forty eight
27:32
Speaker 2: hours later he has a whole social media series on it.
27:36
Speaker 2: And he's making money in social media too, So that's
27:39
Speaker 2: a commitment.
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Speaker 5: And anybody that's tall, I'm a good fan.
27:43
Speaker 4: Of tall, dark and handsome.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely. Well, I wouldn't call myself tall dark, and
27:48
Speaker 6: he you tall.
27:49
Speaker 4: You're tall. I'm just tall, pasty and handsome.
27:52
Speaker 5: You know, my mother said I had a face for radio.
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Speaker 4: Walter, please reach out to me. We needed twerks.
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Speaker 2: Would love to have you on the show and bring
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Speaker 2: your cronies and your team and anybody else that you
28:05
Speaker 2: want to bring. But congratulations, you've made the Pharmacy fifty.
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Speaker 2: I think this might have been his second time making
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Speaker 2: this list too, and with good reason.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Part two of the Pharmacy fifty Awards.
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Speaker 1: Be sure to come back next Saturday for Part three.