PHARMACIST STEVE

Walgreens urged to leave US to gain tax benefit http://www.cnbc.com/id/101580301 From the article: Walgreens has come under pressure from an influential group of its shareholders, who want the US pharmacy chain to consider relocating to Europe, in what would be one of the largest tax inversions ever attempted. At a private meeting in Paris on […]

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I spotted this the other day.. This grocery store.. which is part of a national grocery store chain based in Cincinnati, OH. They operate under various names. This particular store has been here for 30+ yrs.. but recently a section in the store.. where a bank branch operated.. the bank vacated the spot and in […]

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I got this email from a Senior RPH…. I was coming in for my shift and two parking slots down this individual put on a neck brace and took out a cane. He did not see me but 5 minutes later he came walking into the pharmacy doing an academy award performance explaining why he […]

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Step Program for Pharmacist Errors ? http://www.topix.com/forum/com/wag/TC9J489HE9CUL5TRH    Posted in the Walgreens Forum From the website: I was placed on this last week after making 2 STARS errors this year. I was told its a step program and after 3 violations it results in termination. With no tech help and having to verify everything for others […]

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I got this email today: Steve:   I just had to comment on that email. I directed a statewide poison center, two centers covered about 2.4 million citizens.   I worked for many years, but now retired… We could receive tens of thousands calls per year, about half of which were for pill ID’s. I […]

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With Guns, Suicide Is the Biggest Problem http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ACP/45229?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-04-12&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=WC&eun=g578717d0r& From article: ORLANDO — Every day, 88 people die from firearm-related injury; two-thirds of those deaths are suicides, a high proportion of which are committed by seniors and individuals living in rural areas, researchers reported here. Cooke said isolation, combined with alcohol or other substance abuse and […]

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You normally hear this term when someone is talking about people who abuse some substance.. The vast majority – if not all – of people who abuse some substance has mental health issues. That is why they want to “change their feelings” .. they are dealing with monkeys on their back or demons in their […]

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The Law of Compounding Medications And Drugs http://www.lawofcompoundingmedications.com/ This Pharmacist apparently started blogging in April 2012.. focusing on BOP actions and compounding pharmacies, Just before that fiasco with NECC A quick count indicates that she has done some 9+K posts..  so she is quite prolific in her blogging/posting. As I get to read many/most of […]

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              Some of us have taken our shingle down and moved our career in a different direction.. sometimes quite a dramatic career shift. One such Pharmacist is Dennis Miller .. already having published two books and nearly a dozen articles in DRUG TOPICS on various pharmacy related matters Dennis […]

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Many of my long time readers know about me taking over a friends HME/Respiratory business last June, after he suffered a incapacitating stroke and passed away a couple of months later. I walked into a company that was losing 25% of sales and financials were in total disarray. “Going Forward” was a phrase that I […]

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