The grade on my midterm was the expected grade based upon my work I put forth. I have very little interest in this class so this makes it extra hard for me to pa attention in this class. There were no specific notes that I could take or anything that I could really look up. My opinion on this class is just that this class is a very opinionated class and it is hard to do research on things that will make you double think what you have been thought through life and now how you feel based upon how you were taught. So I got exactly what I thought I was going to make and then I think it was a little higher then what I expected.

I work at Walgreen’s Pharmacy as a Sr. CPhT and I chose a topic that I could do while I was at work. During this time there were a few generic that came out and I did my best to show customers that the active ingredient is the same. The main generic that came out were Metoprolol Succinate for Toprol XL (hypertension), Bupropion HCL for Wellburtin XL (antidepressant), Amlodipine for Norvasc (calcium channel blocker), and Oxcarbazepine for Trileptal (epilepsy or seizures). Most often when trying to explain how brand and generic are the same I’m usually talking to the elderly, and as we all know they are stock in there ways. So this makes my job even harder so I usually have to talk to there pocket and explain to them that you are paying more for “name” of the drug not the actual drug. If you were to do research on brand-generic drugs you will see that they go through the same test and the same people FDA. I would usually give examples on how it’s the same but different like; when you go to Dillards and but clothes you are paying more the name that’s on the clothes not the actually clothes. I try to show them that the active ingredient which will be the material is the same at Dillard and Walmart the only difference may be that the stitching is different, the pocket is in a different place, the color may be different, you will have a metal button rather a plastic button but it is still a pair of jeans. You may feel that the look is different or the shape is different but that is only a mind thing and that is what is costing you so much you “THINK” there is a difference so your brain will over power how you feel and look. So times this analogy works and some times it don’t. “So if you think of another one please let me know.”

The purpose of this class is to open your eyes to a much more boarded aspect of region and how you think and feel about it. This class wants to show you the truth or rather the things that could be proven and not just what you read from a book that was not writer by the actual person. Hopeful in my field I can show people the same different in brand-generic and maybe show people that sometimes drugs are not need to fix everything. Sometimes life causes for a break and if you ignore that break serious consequences will follow. Yes, meds do help you feel better and help you live a longer and more fulfilled life but sometimes if you would have taken care of you r body earlier you would not be here now. If you would have changed your lifestyle in eating you will not have to take meds for hypertension, if you will deal with stations in life when they appear and not wait til they take over your life you would not have to take antidepressants. Show people that talking to a physicist does not mean that you are crazy sometimes you need to talk to someone that has no connection to your daily life. A stranger that will not judge you and say that you were not raised to think like that, or say that this is just a phase you are going through pray on it and it will be ok, or that mom or dad that say’s I had that feeling and look I got over it. But remember that you are not them, you are you and your needs and mental state are different, your feelings and passion are not their’s, your feeling on death is better then you feeling for living can not be solved by a pill but rather a pill (sometimes) but a person that you can just spread all of your dirty laundry to.

Feminist approach is us full because where would the world be today with out women. Yes we caus problem but we are also that ones to fix the problem we caused and yours

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