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pharmacies in hospitals and corpora-
"It was difficult for the independents
tions, and the general need brought on
to compete because these chain stores
by the expanding health care field.
could afford big prescription invento-
"The prescription counters at some
ries," said Henry Cohen, who opened
chain
stores are closed for some shifts
Henry's Drug Co. at Forest and Third
because
a pharmacy employee may be
avenues in 1930. "That also was the
ill,
with
no one available to replace him
early stage of health care programs, and
or
her,"
she
said.
it took a long time for us to get reim-
About
100
pharmacists graduate
bursements on prescription insurance."
each
year
at
Wayne
State, most with a
But the straw that broke the backs
five-year bachelor of science degree, and
of the independent pharmacists was
some with a six-year doctorate (15 this
crime in the city. "When someone
year).
Half of today's pharmacy stu-
holds a gun to your temple ... well,
dents
at
the three colleges are women,
that's it," said Cohen, who had that
who
average
only 30 hours a week after
happen to him during one of three
graduation.
holdups at his store. In one of the rob-
The Jewish pharma-
beries, when Cohen
cy student total is
wasn't there, his
the lowest it has ever
pharmacist was shot
been, according to
and killed, appar-
Rogan. She estimates
ently because he
that 10 percent of
didn't empty the
the pharmacy gradu-
cash register fast
ates at the three state
enough. Cohen sold
colleges today are
his store to the
Jewish, compared to
Cunningham's
40 to 50 percent in
chain.
the 1940s through
Ben Wasserman,
Isadore Averbuch, a 50-year Aesculapi-
1960s. Because of
who operated Tower an, talks with Susan Morof-Solarz at
discrimination, it
Drugs at Grand
her second meeting.
was difficult for
River and Meyers
young Jews to get
for 35 years, was the
into
medical
and
dental
schools in
victim of several night burglaries, then
those days — pharmacy apparently was
three daytime robberies — even with
the next best choice. But all of that has
an armed guard on the premises —
changed now, causing the pharmacy
before selling out and going to work as
school falloff
a Farmer Jack pharmacist.
"I guess Jewish kids today don't
"Thar was another reason for our
want
to grow up to be pharmacists,"
demise: We couldn't get people to work
said Spielberg. "It's more glamorous to :-
for us in the city," said Spielberg. "The
be a doctor or a lawyer or an astronaut.
crooks wanted our money and our
That's another reason we want to reju-
drugs.
venate our association, to recruit new
When a robber took Wainer hostage
members and get more Jewish young-
in her own store, holding a gun to her
sters interested in pharmacy"
head while four accomplices cleaned
Susan Morof-Solarz, a University of
out the registers and the drugs, "that
Michigan graduate who works at Birm-
was enough for my husband and me,"
ingham Drugs, is an example of the
she said. "After that incident, I never set
APA's "young blood." Hearing of the
foot in the store again."
group's plight, she attended a meeting.
According to Jane Rogan, historian
"I respect these gentlemen for their
for the Wayne State pharmacy school,
contribution
to pharmacy over the
there were about 1,000 pharmacies in
years.
I
think
it's great that they have
the city of Detroit in the 1920s, 600 in
such high spirits, and are still active as
the 1960s, and only about 50 now;
an association. They want to get new
there are 7,500 practicing pharmacists
members and raise more money to pro-
in the state.
vide
free prescriptions for Jewish caus-
"The reasons for the decline are easy
es,"
she
said.
to understand," she said, alluding to
crime, specifically the 1967 riots that
destroyed many stores, white flight to
To assist the Aesculapian Phar-
the suburbs, and the chain drug stores.
maceutical Association, or
Rogan, the Michigan Pharmaceuti-
obtain more information about
cal Association, and the APA members
the group, call Estelle Wainer at
agree there is a shortage of pharmacists
today, mainly resulting from a prolifera-
(248) 557-3625.
tion of suburban pharmacies, new

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