This story first appeared in Drug Topics on March 3, 2021
Minh Dang, RPh, was in high school working as a cashier at an Osco Drug in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 1980s. A friendly kid who loved math and science, she wasn’t sure what career to pursue. One day, the store’s pharmacy manager pulled her aside and asked, “What do you think about a career in pharmacy?”
She was 16 or 17 years old at the time. Although there were doctors and nurses in her family, there wasn’t a single pharmacist. Dang now looks at that conversation as a pivotal point in her life.
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