THOMASVILLE- Fulton Books author June Titus, a retired nurse of forty-five years, has completed her most recent book “Redemption Suite”: a powerful story of one woman’s journey to discover her
March 11, 2021
The donation from the estate of USC alumna Susie Titus establishes the USC Titus Center for Medication Safety and Population Health. (Photo/Getty Images)
The USC School of Pharmacy has received a $5 million gift to create a new center that will seek to reduce hospitalizations and emergency room visits by making the medicine we consume safer and more efficient.
“The goal of the Titus Center is to improve patient health and safety by ensuring that patients with chronic diseases receive the right medication at the right doses, avoid dangerous drug interactions and understand how to use each medication correctly,” said Steven Chen, the school’s associate dean for clinical affairs.
A resolution to get back to the books
Harper Lee of To Kill A Mockingbird fame once wrote, “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved reading. One does not love breathing.”
Which is how I’ve felt since I first learned to read more than 60 years ago. Reading books was as natural eating or sleeping for me. On various applications I filled out in my younger days, under hobbies I listed reading until I one day I realized the error of my ways. Collecting stamps or building model ships were hobbies, but reading for me belonged in a nameless category all its own.