Pharmacist fired for refusing to break practice act ?

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

According to this lawsuit and newspaper article  this pharmacist refused to acquire non-FDA approved drug for lethal injection and was fired. Of course, there is always three sides to every story…. yours…. mine…… and the truth…. interested to see out this comes out… that is … if it isn’t settled with a confidentially agreement attached

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Here is how “your silence can cost you ” !

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

  Some of us have often stated that we MUST express our concerns – IN WRITING –  to upper management about work place environment that we know are contributing to patient safety and med errors. The typical response from RPH’s is “if I speak up … I will get fired…” The graphic to the right […]

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If this happens … could it be self-serving?

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

Here is a article from CBS MONEY WATCH .. since the PBM’s began over four decades ago… it would seem that FTC and Justice has been enamored with the PBM’s.. even to the point of almost promoting PBM’s and mail order. More and more entities that are partially or fully funded by tax dollars for […]

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Is the media and patients starting to have enough about med errors?

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Pharmaciststeve

From a  report from Fox 31 Denver  a Mother claims THREE MED ERRORS in two weeks for this one family. Walgreen’s statement…  Walgreen’s spokesman Robert Elfinger released this statement: “We have a multi-step prescription filling process with numerous safety checks in each step to reduce the chance of human error. We will investigate what happened […]

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