PHARMACIST STEVE

Imagine that there was this small -medium city… some 50K population.. could even be a county seat or state capital…  Say this metropolitan area was the base for all four of the major TV station affiliates (ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX)..  As with most metropolitan areas like this… the three major pharmacy chains have one “name” that dominates the […]

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I was watching the National Geographic Channel the other night and there was a show about South American drug cartels and the smuggling of drugs to the US http://natgeotv.com/uk/cocaine-submarines According to this …it would seem that the South American drug smugglers have moved from using “fast boats”… to semi-submersibles… to SUBMARINES … needless to say […]

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It started out years ago… mostly auto assembly plants started working with outside suppliers and shippers that the parts of the finish product shows up hrs/days before it is needed.. so that the assembly plant does not have to sit on a bunch of inventory … many of us fail to realize that the auto […]

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I’m not talking about the top 40’s song hits or the biggest box office movie of the week. I opened up my email this morning.. to find the typical few dozen of things in my unread inbox…  Like most of you… many go directly to the “trash bin”… whittle down the “trash” from the “non-trash” […]

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  I put this survey up two weeks ago.. and since then.. it has been the second most view posted on my blog.. since that date..  AND and whopping 28% of the people who viewed the page bothered to take the survey…  I suspect that there are a few non-pharmacists that read my blog – […]

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I have just spend my afternoon  at a large county RPH Association seminar.. gotta get those CE’s. There was probably close to 100 RPH’s in attendance.  Listening to some of the chatter in the room before and between sessions… there was seemingly a fair number of young PART-TIME WAG’s Rph’s… being moved around and only […]

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I have not had the chance to read everything that this new RPH blogger has to say… but the title of his/her blog puts things in place http://rphtruth.blogspot.com/ If he/she sticks to his/her theme… “truth” maybe a few more RPH’s will be jarred out of their state of denial or apathy.. Apparently this is just […]

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Recently I posted on this blog about – at least – the local Walgreen’s district requiring ICD9’s on a C-II Rxs for them to be legal to fill at a Walgreens store. https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=3269 Last night I saw a C-II rx issued from the ER of my local hospital…  This is the only hospital in a […]

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Our work environment  – or as some call it – the practice of pharmacy has evolved… the practice act, which we operate under… and those that oversee it seem to prefer the status quo..  the status quo is based on rules/regulations that were mostly promulgated in the early 20th century. Most BOP members are appointed […]

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