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ow what?” I asked myself. At the time I was the assistant pharmacy director at Sinai Hospital of Detroit and had just been appointed acting director until the permanent director of pharmacy was secured. I was one year out of my residency and a graduate student with the summer to devote to the operation of the hospital pharmacy. I was “as green as a stick” and did not have much of a clue about so many things. The outpatient supervisor, pharmacist Lester Atkins, told me he had his area covered, so we would have no problems there. But in the inpatient area—oh my . . . so much to do! We had just started an intravenous admixture program and 24-hour services. So I decided to call one of my professors, Robert L. Ravin, who at the time was a member of the ASHP Board of Directors and director of pharmacy at St. Joseph Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mr. Ravin was very generous with his time and advice to me. He told