The Pharmacy Lab - Customizing and Personalizing Care
The Story of a Brand
Ramon Vela
5 • 145 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Serina says, “a compounding pharmacy is a specialty sector of a drugstore where we make compounded prescriptions. A compounded prescription is a prescription item where the pharmacist has to either mix or combine several ingredients to make a very individualized product for the customer. We could do products that use prescription ingredients and we can also use different ingredients like nutritional supplements or natural things that don't have to be a prescription drug. Basically, we're customizing and personalizing care.”
Today, we interview Serina Hanlon, the Owner of The Pharmacy Lab. The Pharmacy Lab is a Compounding Pharmacy specializing in non-sterile compounds. Their expertise is in the realm of creating and helping you personalize medications that would not otherwise be commercially available.
We discuss:
* What she’s grateful for
* Overview and origin of The Pharmacy Lab
* How she supports small businesses by promoting their products
* What a compounding pharmacy is and how it can help you
* The difference between a commercial and compounding pharmacy
* How burn out affected her decision to start her own business
* Advice to other entrepreneurs
* How The Pharmacy Lab gets to know their clients, including a medical review
* And so much more…
Join Ramon Vela and Serina Hanlon as we break down the inside story of Arey on The Story of a Brand.
For more on The Pharmacy Lab, visit: https://www.thepharmacylab.ca/
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| 0:00.0 | advantage most of the time is just to be able to personalize the care. There are a lot of different |
| 0:05.8 | examples where you may need to go to a compounding pharmacy. Something very common right now would be |
| 0:12.2 | drug shortages. So if you're going to, you know, pain medication for your child, and you can't |
| 0:18.0 | find it anywhere because there's a huge run on it or antibiotics. Right now that's the current thing. |
| 0:22.6 | Then you go to a compounding pharmacy and we'll make it because, so that's a, you know, that's a solution to a problem. |
| 0:28.6 | If you're not able to swallow a pill and you need in liquid, but it doesn't come in liquid, You can go to a compounding pharmacy. We can do that. |
| 0:39.7 | There's just so many possibilities. We can make different dosage forms. |
| 0:42.9 | So, you know, an example would be pain. |
| 0:45.8 | We are trying not to get so many patients on opioids anymore because of the opioid epidemic. |
| 0:53.2 | But that leaves very few options available for treatment. |
| 0:58.3 | Not everyone can be on an anti-inflammatory because of, you know, kidney problems or blood pressure |
| 1:03.8 | issues. And so we can compound pain creams and put ingredients into a topical form so that they'll |
| 1:10.1 | help with that local area. |
| 1:12.0 | If you just have a pain in your elbow, you don't really need to take a pill that affects |
| 1:15.4 | your whole body. You're localizing the treatment and you're reducing side effects. |
| 1:21.5 | There's lots of situations, pet medications commonly compounded children's medications, if they don't want a particular flavor, |
| 1:31.3 | it can be customized to a flavor that they like. |
| 1:34.3 | This is the story of a brand, a podcast that helps people learn the story behind their favorite |
| 1:50.1 | consumer products. I'm Ramon Vela, and I believe that people want to know more about the brands |
| 1:55.8 | and products they purchase. So each week, I interview the founder of a consumer brand, |
| 2:00.4 | unpack their story, their products, their mission, so you can decide which products are worth buying and which brands are worth supporting. |
| 2:11.6 | Serena says a compounding pharmacy is a specialty sector of a drugstore where we make compounded prescriptions. |
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