Author: Michael Ilardo

By Michael “Mike-the-Pharmacist” Ilardo RPh Fraud, waste, and abuse is a big problem in health care. Someone ends up footing the bill. Sometimes patients won’t see it, sometimes they will. One example is the drug above – A bottle of #100 costs our Pharmacy $2700. $2700!!! We ordered it because a Doctor wrote for a…Read more

Have you ever had to pay full price for a prescription at a Chain Drug Store? It’s almost as bad as buying something at Kohl’s when it’s not on sale and you don’t have a magic 30% off scratch off coupon and $20 in Kohl’s cash. Many have insurance, but many don’t – and today…Read more

There are a variety of side gigs out there and ways to make extra money. You can start a blog, sell spare organs, deliver pizzas, do Door Dash or GrubHub or if you have an extra $2 million dollars laying around buy a McDonalds. You can buy property or write a best selling novel. You…Read more

I write sports themes at times on a few Facebook groups and I emailed a copy of this article to a FB friend who writes for USA today so I thought I would share it here as you never know if someone may be searching for sports info and this can be a help. I…Read more

by Mike-the-Pharmacist A man asked Jerry Seinfeld for “The Secret.” Meaning, what was the secret to his success? Jerry told him – “It’s easy. You just need to get out a blank calendar with a square for each day and every day write jokes for ONE HOUR. Mark an X on the day you did…Read more

by Mike-the-Pharmacist I love the idea of a side hustle. I recommend a side hustle. I teach how to start a side hustle. If you don’t already have one or five others you are doing, I have one you can partner up with me to do. But I don’t like what I call the Rat…Read more

Time is Money. Money is time. Freedom isn’t free. There are folks with money. But they are working until 4:55 PM the day of their funeral. They are stressed to the max, and trying to out make what their spouse can spend, hoping that an inevitable heart attack can wait until a time they can…Read more

By Mike-the-Pharmacist Starting a new venture can be as dangerous and intimidating as sailing into the deep waters of the unknown. If you attempted to navigate those side-income producing waters or life-changing waters or world-changing waters, you may know how overwhelming the journey can seem. Worse, many folks will make you feel like something is…Read more

By Mike-the-Pharmacist Today was our 14th Wedding Anniversary. I planned reservations at Texas De Brazil and a nice atmosphere where we had celebrated a few years ago. Instead it was another one of those days with 5 children, a long day with home school and car repairs and life, and we instead settled for a…Read more