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driving away 40 years of irreplaceable clinical experience ?
Posted on May 31, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Move to Electronic Records Has Pushed Doctors Out http://www.newsmax.com/CharlesKrauthammer/Healthcare-EHR-Obama/2015/05/29/id/647489/#ixzz3bkklmwMj About a decade ago, a doctor friend was lamenting the increasingly frustrating conditions of clinical practice. “How did you know to get out of medicine in 1978?” he asked with a smile. “I didn’t,” I replied. “I had no idea what was coming. I just felt […]
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“We will continue to combat heroin trafficking to protect Americans from this severe and growing threat.”
Posted on May 31, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
DEA Releases 2015 National Heroin Threat Assessment The Threat Is Severe and Growing The National Heroin Threat Assessment (NHTA), released today by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), shows heroin use and availability on the rise and causing more overdose deaths than at any time in the last decade. Although fewer people presently use […]
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WV legislator passes law allows addicts to sue docs and pharmacists
Posted on May 31, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Benjamin says justices followed the law in allowing addicts to sue doctors, pharmacists http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20150530/GZ01/150539945 West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin made clear in a separate opinion Thursday that the court’s recent decision to allow people who illegally abused drugs prescribed to them to sue their doctors and pharmacists was a decision made by lawmakers […]
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“drunken” DEA agents caught in lie and false police report ?
Posted on May 30, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Video Shows DEA Agents Were Aggressors in Bar Fight: Attorney http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Video-Shows-DEA-Agents-Were-Aggressors-in-Bar-Fight-Attorney-305386241.html A group of DEA agents were attending a party inside Bokamper’s Sports Bar and Grill in Fort Lauderdale in March, when they claim they were battered by two men outside. The police report paints the men as the aggressors baiting the agents into a […]
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I can’t feel your pain.. but.. it can’t be that bad !
Posted on May 30, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
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A well-documented dilemma unfolds when doctors decide to practice law and lawyers decide to practice medicine
Posted on May 30, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
A few years ago this Attorney/Pharmacist called me up… out of the blue…. forgot why now.. but we have had several conversations and email exchanges over the interim… In talking with him… we are months apart in age… similar backgrounds… and – IMO – he could have been my twin brother from another Mother… […]
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More “off the rails” for our medical/healthcare system ?
Posted on May 29, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
The above use to be on the Montana Medical Licensing Board’s website… yet sometime after 2008.. it was quietly taken down… and the Board has taken an aggressive stance against prescribers that prescribe opiates for pts with chronic pain… Below is a reported quote from Vermont Medical Licensing Board… where did our healthcare system […]
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More guilty until proven innocent in FLORIDA and it only took FOUR YEARS
Posted on May 29, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Jay Doctors Cleared Four Years After Federal, State Investigation Began http://www.northescambia.com/2015/05/jay-doctors-cleared-four-years-after-federal-state-investigation-began Two Jay doctors say they have been cleared of any wrongdoing, four years after their medical practice became the focus of a federal and state investigation and they were forced to surrender their licenses to prescribe narcotics. Back in July 2011, the FBI, federal […]
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Collins is recovering after the pharmacist’s mistake sent him to the Cleveland Clinic
Posted on May 29, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve
Pharmacist’s mistake sends St. Albans, WV man to the hospital http://www.wowktv.com/story/29184204/pharmacists-mistake-sends-st-albans-wv-man-to-the-hospital St. Albans, WV – A prescription medication mistake has resulted in medical complications for Cliff Collins. The 35 year old was prescribed the wrong milligram amount of Depakote – a medication he takes to control his nearly 100 seizure a day. His mother and […]
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