By Ryan Joseph
Originally published on hcanews.com
Femi Felix-Ukwu never intended to become a pharmacist. Felix-Ukwu, a pediatric clinical pharmacist at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, grew up in Washington D.C., the son of a community pharmacist mother and a lawyer father. While attending Emory University in Atlanta, he figured he’d become a doctor but dropped the idea as he progressed in his premed studies. Being a doctor interested him, but he didn’t have the patience to weather four years of medical school and then several more in far-flung residencies. So, after graduating, he held down a series of odd jobs, teaching biology and working the front desk of a gym, before finally figuring out his calling.
“[Pharmacist] seemed like a respectable position,” Felix-Ukwu says. “You get to wear a fancy lab coat. It seemed like a career that I could be proud to say, ‘I’m this or I’m that.’ When you talk about whatever you do for a living, [being a pharmacist] has a nice ring to it.”
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