Regina talks to pharmacy students in a storybook format fully illustrated with large print.

The Last Supper:of Pills and Paper

Welcome Pharmacy Students!

You are an incredibly important link in the chainof communication

What work will effect you?

The doctors ordersThe medical transcription The coordination of care The patient’s verbal history

You may not conduct the score,but you better be willing to keep it.

You will see and hear the entire orchestra of care.

Sometimes, care will be a travestyof poor communication.

This is Sutent in a Shadow box.

It is a mixed media piece of pills & paper.It is priced at cost in homage of the retail price of the pills alone.

17 pills $24,285.71

Sometimes you will attend medical conferencesand you will hear that patients are not compliant.

Frederick A Holliday II, loving husband and father on June 17th 2009,

could not open his eyes, he could not speak, he could barely breath,

but he took his damn pills before he died.

And they dare to say we are not medically compliant.

You will see a young mother grow old and tired and neverstop caring for her son.

You will watch children with inhalers,

grow into young adults without means to pay for this life-saving device.

You will watch the dominoes fall…

You will try to answer questions privately, while a line of impatient onlookers wait for their prescriptions.

You will see patients try to advocate for themselves,

Without the safe checks of

CPOE, CDS and e-prescribing.

You will help some people to have full and active lives.

They will get medicine that will allow them to walk and open jar lids.

Such people will have insurance.

The other people will get Wheelchairs.

SometimesThere will be errors.

Sometimes peopleWill die.

Sometimes a pill becomes a prison silo, rather than a release of pain.

Sometimes when a patient needs it the most,

Medication will not be available.

A gray market darkness will surround you,

Or an institution will not be able to pay the bills,

Or a government that once helped its citizens finds its coffer bare.

You will see patients try to dance that delicate dance of east meets west.

And you will try teach patients proper care

When they already “self-medicating.”

You will see that return on investment is measured in many ways.

When you have seen all of this, then you will choose:

Do you take the red pill or the blue?

Do you go on and say that is just the way it is?

Or do you jump into the rabbit hole?

And when jump into that hole,There will be a door.

You can have a voice.You can change things.

We look forward to seeing you

in the wonderland

of health policy.