Behind the scene in big box retail pharmacies,-employees are stretched to the limit-burned out, overworked, and forced to meet unrealistic expectations, putting pharmacists, techs and patient safety at risk.

Back in July, I shared Part 2 of my blog series, "Lining Up the Suspects: Uncovering the True Cost of Misdiagnosis. This is when I revealed that I’m the real person behind the story I had previously told through a fictitious character. But there’s a piece of that story I didn’t fully unpack at the time — the way my first major misdiagnosis unfolded during my freshman year of college, and the unbelievable irony that shaped the course of my health journey.