They say .. a picture is worth a thousand words… enough said !
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It is all about patient safety ?
Posted on June 9, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve
This was posted on a another pharmacy Facebook page by a WAG’S technician in three separate posts.. this month… At one point our printed stack was 80 deep, a new record. And they cut our hours based on a projected number of 276 rx/day. We had done over 400 by 1pm Yeah it’s bullshit…we lost […]
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What they say is what they mean ?
Posted on June 8, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve
New Licensing For Pharmacy Technicians From the article: Meanwhile, Sen. Mike Green, R-Mayville, believes licensing of pharmacy technicians will help protect public safety. Pharmacy technicians are assistants to licensed pharmacists Then you get to the REAL REASON they are proposing this licensing…. “There is a growing trend of reported drug diversion (taking prescription drugs for […]
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If they had three brain cells holding hands !
Posted on June 7, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve
First it is was WAGS and their “good faith filling policy”… now it is Costco that is starting a similar program… I am told that Costco’s RPH has to run a PMP report every time that they fill a control Rx… get ICD9’s and apparently the same/similar crap that WAGS also believes that will help […]
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Excellent advice for RPH’s to CYA themselves
Posted on June 6, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve
This was posted on another blog http://www.jimplagakis.com/ by a fellow Senior RPH that I know.. Again, I would stress the importance of NOT signing anything associated with your employment without having a lawyer look at it. I spent time working with CVS loss prevention and I can tell you that most of the time when […]
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WAGS accused of putting tracking software on CUSTOMER’S COMPUTERS ?
Posted on June 5, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve
Walgreen Asks 8th Circ. To Settle Tracking Suit Venue Feud From the article: Walgreen Co. on Monday urged the Eighth Circuit to keep in federal court a proposed class action accusing the drugstore chain of surreptitiously installing tracking software on consumers’ computers, claiming it did enough to show that the dispute involves more than $5 […]
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Not like telling the crooks what to look out for !!!
Posted on June 5, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve
Pill Packs Could Trip Up Thieves From the article: At the suggestion of state Surgeon General Dr. John Armstrong, the state Board of Pharmacy agreed Tuesday to check out several devices that look like pill containers but are actually phonies, loaded with tiny signaling units that could help track drug thieves and abusers. The […]
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(HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius LOSES !
Posted on June 5, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve
Court win in girl’s lung transplant case From the article: A federal court judge has granted a temporary order that will allow 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, who is dying from cystic fibrosis and desperately needs new lungs, to join an adult organ transplant list. It was recently reported that only 3% of Medicare Part B claims […]
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Last chance to get your $4 Rx?
Posted on June 4, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve
California To Wal-Mart: Enough! No More Taxpayer Subsidized Profits For You From the article: For years, Wal-Mart—and other large retail operators—have been piling up huge profits by controlling their labor costs through paying employees sub-poverty level wages. As a result, it has long been left to the taxpayer to provide healthcare and other subsidized benefits […]
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Cold – Heartless – BITCH !
Posted on June 4, 2013 by Pharmaciststeve
This is a bit – off topic – but it has to do with DENIAL OF CARE/SERVICES… we are seeing it now with the DEA “twisting the arm” of chains in the who gets controlled meds.. and placing obstacles in the way of legit patients getting their meds.. while trying to stop the 5% of […]
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