You do the crime, you pay the fine, to bad they don’t have to do the time !

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Walgreens-to-pay-diabetic-who-needed-food-fast-5596185.php From the article: Walgreens has agreed to pay $180,000 to a longtime South San Francisco cashier with diabetes who was fired in 2008 for grabbing and eating a $1.39 bag of chips to fend off an attack of low blood sugar, a federal civil rights agency said Wednesday. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the […]

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Off the rails?

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.abc27.com/clip/10326346/prescription-meds-leading-to-dui-charges Would you believe that Pennsylvania has a Pennsylvania DUI Association  REALLY ???? This TV station did not put the text of the piece on the web…. Reader’s Digest version 61 y/o woman (Amelia Whitmer)  made a error while driving.. turned prematurely at intersection and ended up in ditch… Police gave her field sobriety test […]

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New Standard of Care & Best Practices ?

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

All sorts of emails show up in my inbox every day.. today this is an example of one of them.. My problem is this; The only pharmacy to date that I have been able to walk into and pick up my medications for my controlled substance prescriptions is a little ” Mom & Pop Pharmacy […]

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