Article: Retirement in the mix.

Byline: Mark Fagan

Feb. 15--No more mixing ketoprofen-laced cream to concentrate relief on tennis elbows, packing time-released diphenhydramine capsules to ease sleepy side effects or flavoring the active ingredient in Pepto Bismol with Wyler's beef bouillon to make the medicine more palatable for dogs. O. Newton King, a pioneer in reviving the art of compounding drugs by community pharmacists, is retiring. "What I love about this job is that when I walk through that door the first thing in the morning, I have no idea what I'm going to do each day -- and that's the challenge. That's why I come to work," said King, who opened King Pharmacy in 1976. "Now I ...

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