"The profession was switching the way it trained pharmacists, and as a result there was a year when we had no pharmacy class, " says Jim Owen, director of professional practice for the American Pharmaceutical Association.

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In my freshman phys ed class at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, we were required to learn to shoot a rifle for target shooting purposes (although I think planting the seed of arming future inner-city pharmacists was an ulterior motive).

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