PHARMACIST STEVE

Those in the bureaucracy has been pushing this war on drug abuse for over a CENTURY. The Joint Commission (JC) made a sizable dent in the denial of care in declaring the 2000-2009 period as the “DECADE OF PAIN”.. declaring pain as the FIFTH VITAL SIGN. When a pt was hospitalized, if  a pt’s pain […]

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https://youtu.be/wGZEvXNqzkM This was posted on YOUTUBE.com in Feb, 2014 and it is using stats from 2008 when the pill mills in Florida was a growing crisis and IMO.. the video suggests that it is going on today in Florida..  It is like watching a video/movie on the civil war and think that it is still […]

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Back story.. a few weeks ago .. after doing some weed pulling in the yard.. I experienced some shortness of breath and really not feeling well.. so I when into the house and check my blood pressure… heart rate is 120 + and diastolic is in the low 40’s.. for some reason I was having […]

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We patronize the THIRD LARGEST pharmacy chain.. mostly because I have known one of the Pharmacists there for 30+ yrs and it is in our “normal path”. I normally don’t use the drive thru.. I know that pharmacy staff HATE the drive thru and I am not really fond of using it as a customer.. […]

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Recently I blogged about a email that I received from a pt in FLORIDA… https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=11269       where the pt made a complaint against a Pharmacist for refusing to fill the pt’s opiate medication and the BOP’s response was the “Pharmacist’s behavior was unacceptable” but no law was broken..  According to Michael Cohen, RPh, MS, ScD, DPS, […]

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How Identity Theft Sticks You with Hospital Bills http://www.programbusiness.com/News/How-Identity-Theft-Sticks-You-with-Hospital-Bills I started blogging about this developing problem OVER ONE YEAR AGO… see link below https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=6350 Kathleen Meiners was puzzled when a note arrived last year thanking her son Bill for visiting Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence, Mo. Soon, bills arrived from the hospital for a leg-injury […]

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Doctors are playing a very difficult game of changing rules http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/08/doctors-are-playing-a-very-difficult-game-of-changing-rules.html “The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: She succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was […]

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Kim Kardashian Warning Highlights FDA’s Social Media Problem http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/kim-kardashian-warning-highlights-fdas-social-media-problem-n408651 I am not a Kim Kardashian fan or follower… but.. this is another example of how “nuts” many of our Federal Regulators are .. the medication that Kim did a posting on social media is about a anti-nausea mediation that she is taking Diclegis. This medication […]

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Law enforcement access to CT drug monitoring data raises privacy concern http://ctmirror.org/2015/08/13/law-enforcement-access-to-drug-monitoring-program-raises-privacy-concerns/ Washington — Connecticut’s Prescription Monitoring Program aims to stop the misuse of opioids and other dangerous drugs and save lives. But some are concerned these programs have given law enforcement officers access to private information about prescription drugs in your medicine cabinet. Like many states, […]

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