PHARMACIST STEVE

This showed up today: I worked last night with student who is going to pharmacy school starting next month. I wished him good luck, and he replied he was going to needed it since  he would have to write dissertation. I asked, “you’re getting a PhD”, and from his reply it seemed to me that […]

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http://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/news/upload/Letter%20to%20CMS%20%28Patient%20Surveys%29%206-23-14.pdf http://americannewsreport.com/nationalpainreport/senators-claim-doctors-pressured-by-medicare-survey-to-prescribe-painkillers-8824100.html Patient satisfaction surveys used by Medicare to help identify good hospitals could be contributing to the “growing epidemic” of abuse of prescription opioid drugs, according to two U.S. senators. In a letter to the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Dianne Feinstein […]

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Your Doctor Knows You’re Killing Yourself. The Data Brokers Told Her http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-26/hospitals-soon-see-donuts-to-cigarette-charges-for-health.html You may soon get a call from your doctor if you’ve let your gym membership lapse, made a habit of picking up candy bars at the check-out counter or begin shopping at plus-sized stores. That’s because some hospitals are starting to use detailed […]

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http://crazyrxman.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-to-drive-business-to-goofmart.html From the article: So here we are, while patients are waiting, looking at this year’s numbers compared to last year. Sales are actually up but our bottom line is down because the cost of the drugs went up more than sales went up. I also saw a post from a indy in Tx that […]

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