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Please Welcome Patrick Wang Our Student Pharmacist for the Month of August.

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This month, Joe will be working on management issues with Patrick Wang, a fourth-year pharmacy student from The Ohio State University’s College of Pharmacy.

Patrick will graduate in May 2022 and will then take the test to become a registered pharmacist. Patrick will be with Joe and the staff at Plain City Druggist throughout August, so please say hello if you see him out and about with Joe. Joe plans to take Patrick to his many, many meetings and show him what it looks like to own a pharmacy.

Here is what Patrick tells us about himself:

My name is Patrick Wang and I am currently a fourth year PharmD student at The Ohio State University’s College of Pharmacy. I will be doing a student rotation with Joe during the month of August.

I was born and raised in the Toledo area, but moved to Columbus for my freshman year of college and have been here ever since. I graduated from The Ohio State University in 2018 with a BSPS degree.

I always knew that I had a passion for helping people – especially those in my community. One of my biggest passions, especially in high school, was volunteering. I volunteered for multiple years at a local hospital, as well as at a local clinic that served the local elderly Mandarin Chinese population that otherwise were too afraid to go and see a doctor for a health checkup due to the language barrier. Through these experiences I got to get firsthand experience at the difference that I can make by serving my community and was hooked.

I originally was on the path to enter medical school, but this changed when I shadowed a doctor and saw that, no matter how hard the doctor tried, there simply were not enough working hours to be able to really establish a strong relationship with the patients. Every visit was limited to about 15 minutes before the doctor had to move on and see the next patient.

This experience caused me to change my career path to pharmacy, where being open and readily available to patients are hallmarks of the profession.

I’ve worked for Kroger pharmacy for about five years and throughout my time I’ve been able to see the connections that my pharmacists had with their patients, and was even able to form a few myself.

I chose this rotation because independent pharmacies such as Plain City Druggist really exemplify what it means to be a pillar of the community and often have to be extremely careful about how they manage their resources. My hope is that by participating in this rotation, I will be able to learn these management techniques from Joe and the other managers.

In my free time I enjoy being outside taking walks, playing games, and listening to music.

In the future I want to continue to work in community pharmacy in either Ohio or Georgia and foster my relationships with my patients in a way that goes beyond simply patient and provider.

I will be found at various Happy Druggist stores throughout the month and look forward to serving you.

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