Some Pharm.D.’s can be found bagging Doritos in retail pharmacies

“Rogers belongs to a new breed of pharmacists charging out of college nowadays – armed with doctorates and ready to join the top ranks of health care providers – only to bruise their supple young egos as they bump up against the hard reality and often mundane duties of retail pharmacy.

Better educated and better trained than their predecessors, these members of the so-called ‘Pharm.D.’ generation of practitioners are often unprepared for what one Boston educator calls the ‘bagging-the-Doritos phenomenon.’”

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