Cops abusing a paralyzed man in wheel chair

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

Video of Lafayette officer pushing over man in wheelchair released http://wishtv.com/2014/07/02/video-of-lafayette-officer-pushing-over-man-in-wheelchair-released/ From the article: Officer Aaron Lorton is among the police who have been called to the Excel Center after Kincade told school security he has a gun in his backpack. While that’s a lie, police do find a pocketknife, so they give him a trespass […]

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Is Corresponding Responsibility… to JUST SAY NO ?

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

This came from the California Board of Pharmacy… It would appear that “CORRESPONDING RESPONSIBILITY” is a ONE WAY STREET at least at the state level.. or not considered more than a one way street.. Unless there is some corresponding responsibility for the pharmacist not denying a legit pt their legally written, on time medically necessary […]

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I may be getting my point across !

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

This showed up as a comment on my blog  from a post I was at a pharmacy last month and was trying to get a script filled of a certain long acting opioid. The woman at the register was looking at me weird like most do when presenting a opioid script , she handed the […]

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The war on drugs… ran by MORONS ?

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

Police give elderly man drug charges after pharmacy issues incorrect prescription An 83-year-old man and his wife were violently arrested because of a pharmacy screw up. http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/robert-cirpinski-pharmacy/ From the article: BURLINGTON, WI — Police were asked to retrieve a bottle of pills that hat been incorrectly issued to an elderly patient.  When the 83-year-old man […]

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Being fined for not doing something that is illegal ?

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

Rite Aid paying $20K in settlement with Maryland http://legalnewsline.com/news/247102-rite-aid-paying-20k-in-settlement-with-maryland The last time that I looked, the manufacturer, wholesaler and pharmacy are responsible for medications being stored at the appropriate temperature. From the article: Between May 2010 and October 2011, Rite Aid of Maryland Inc. allegedly mailed prescriptions to patients without confirming their mailing addresses. When […]

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Taking them off at the knees !

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

This page is a “work in progress” Those with subjective diseases ( Pain, Mental Health, Anxiety, ADD/ADHD ) are experiencing a great deal of difficulty of being treated by our society &  healthcare system like other pts with chronic diseases. There are untold number of rules,laws, regulations that are being broken and fractured.. some out […]

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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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What is more important ?

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/PublicHealth/46594?isalert=1&uun=g578717d1671R5705800u&utm_source=breaking-news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-news&xid=NL_breakingnews_2014-07-01 From the article: Overdose deaths from both prescription opioids and heroin continued to rise in 2011, the most recent year for which data were available, according to the CDC. While prescription opioid deaths followed a more than decade-long trend and increased about 2% to 16,917, heroin deaths jumped by 44% — from 3,036 in […]

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