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The Silent Warrior: The Price of Survival is a deeply personal memoir by Tony Guerra, tracing nearly eight decades of a life shaped by discipline, war, service, illness, and unbreakable resilience. The book is not merely a war story, but a reflection on character, endurance, and the quiet strength required to survive life’s greatest trials.

Pressure and anxiety often get in the way of learning multiplication tables making it take way longer than it should to master those math facts. By creating a pressure-free story-driven book, you can easily listen through. If you've ever said, "I'm not a math person," this is the book for you. It will build memorable stories for anyone who wants to finally master the math they need to succeed. The examples are step-by-step with all of the tips and tricks that make math a lot easier to learn.

This easy-to-listen guide organizes pharmacology into manageable, logical steps you can fit in short pockets of time. The proven system helps you memorize medications quickly and form immediate connections. With mnemonics from students and instructors, you'll see how both sides approach learning. After you've finished the 200 Top Drugs in this book, reading pharmacology exam questions will seem like reading plain English.

Whether you're studying for the PTCB, ExCPT, NCLEX, NAPLEX, USMLE Step-1, PANCE or just want to pass a pharmacology exam tomorrow, it is a subject you need to, but don't want to deal with. As a working parent of seven-year-old triplet daughters, I understand time management presents one of the greatest barriers to my pharmacology students' success. Many students feel cold overwhelm and information overload.

Can you remember, pronounce, and spell the active ingredient in the last medicine you took or gave your child? Administrators, are you sure every employee providing patients medicines can pronounce and spell them perfectly? If you have any doubt, whether you are listening to this book in a doctor's office, a pharmacy, or a hospital room, I wrote this book for you.

I wrote this mnemonic guide as an audiobook first to help you remember pharmacology drug names and principles quickly. While in the classroom your professors might say memorization doesn't matter, but you can't bring outside material to the board exam, so for this test, you do need to work on memory training. You already know the consequences of failing a class or board exam, so let's make sure that doesn't happen by getting pharmacology organized in your head once and for all.

With triplet eight-year-old daughters, I don't get four-hour study blocks in a quiet corner of the library. I get an hour here or 15 minutes there. This book is for those commuters, busy parents, and working students who need a "fit it in" approach to studying pharmacology. This book has multiple rapid-fire questions, answers, rationales, and mnemonics that you can do alone or with a partner to help you understand pharmacology better and remember the content longer.

It's easier for pharmacists to get their kids to take medicine, and in this audiobook, I explain why. It makes so much sense for a child to take their medicine, logically. But getting children to take their medicine by justifying it logically is doomed to failure. I'm a dad with three seven-year-old triplet daughters, and I bring you into my thought process when it's time to give them medicine and how I bring them into the conversation - literally. At worst, you'll learn a lot about the most common over-the-counter medicines and some of the most prescribed pediatric medicines.

When you are going after an in-demand job, often there are many people competing against you. However, you can prepare for the phone screen interview better than they can with the tips and techniques presented in this book.

Without a firm understanding of rankings, most students applying to pharmacy residencies throw darts at a board with their eyes closed. Most fundamentally misunderstand how to apply to the right residency sites. I understand there are over 4,000 seats available on that menu. How do you choose? And with so many students applying for those seats, how do you find the opportunities that will give you a better chance to match to a program that you want?

Whether you are a PharmD, PhD, MD, DPT, DC, or DNP, you likely have a credit card, student loan, and/or mortgage debt you would like to pay down. While your professors worked hard to teach you the ins and outs of clinical practice, it's unlikely they talked about personal finance as often making money is an anathema to being a good clinician and an unwelcome conversation. While debt prevention isn't as sexy as the person who overcame hundreds of thousands of student loan debt, the principles that the authors follow can help you find yourself in a much better financial place.

Whether you are taking the Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Certified Risk Adjustment Coder (CRC), other coding certification or moving towards your Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) credential, there is a point where you’ll run into pharmacology, maybe as part of your coursework or in a standalone class. '

Whether you are taking the Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam (PTCE) which some call the PTCB which actually stands for the name of the organization, the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board, or the ExCPT, Exam for the Certification of Pharmacy Technicians administered by the National Healthcareer Association (NHA), there will be a point where you start taking a lot of practice exams. In this quick and easy listen, you can better understand what's expected on the pharmacy technician exam and how you can use memory aids to help you pass.

The Pharmacy Residency Podcast, with your host, Tony Guerra, has interviews and information on building your career, health, and wealth before, during, and after residency. Interested in being a guest on a show about pharmacy residency? Email me at tonythepharmacist@gmail.com The Pharmacy Residency Podcast is part of the Pharmacy Podcast Network.

We go over the tools you need to succeed in pharmacology class. Sponsored by the Memorizing Pharmacology book series available on Audible, Amazon, and Apple. Find the Memorizing Pharmacology book here: https://adbl.co/3wAZEmN or take a pharmacology class with me here at DMACC https://www.dmacc.edu/programs/pdp/pre-pharmacy/Pages/online-pharmacology-class.aspx

Why do you need this book? Each pharmacy student gets 24 hours in a day, but some pharmacy residency applicants earn 15 interview invitations - while others earn one or none. What separates them?

If you’re reading this, it’s likely that either you didn't get an interview, or you feel "Residency Match Day" was one of the worst days of your life. However, there is, if you get an interview invitation, a one-in-five chance to still earn a residency position this year. That number goes up dramatically if you use some of the techniques in this book that puts you not only ahead of the game, but ahead of the curve.

In Without Being Asked: How Can Dads and Kids Help Around the House to Reduce Burnout?, a pharmacist dad and his triplet eight-year-old daughters work to find their own decluttering way. After a few weeks of missteps, the house now remains consistently clutter free. Progress continues on new organizing projects and the general level of stress and anxiety that comes with a multiple-kid household is much lower.

I’ve been asked to speak at a few schools on tips for succeeding in residency. Rather than give them a few tips in a PowerPoint or hand them one of the books I’d already written, I asked myself: At the moment a student gets the very first interview email, what is their next best step? This audiobook is that first step - a quick run-through of do's and don’ts, so you don’t get blindsided. Hopefully, you’ll optimistically listen to it ahead of that first interview email.

A Letter of Intent, or LOI, is a writing type that falls under English for Specific Purposes (ESP) which is a subgroup of English as a second language (ESL). The specific purpose for an LOI is to earn a residency interview. Your letter should have the current residents and residency director saying, “I have to meet this person”.