Digital finger printer scanners help prevent medical insurance fraud ?

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

Floyd Memorial installs fingerprint scanners http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/indiana/2014/09/26/floyd-memorial-installs-fingerprint-scanners/16211187/ While this is the “glazed over” story about why our local hospital has implemented this digital finger print reader attached to their medical record system.  This week I was in the hospital for some out pt lab tests and got to talking to the lab tech about this system. […]

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Tennessee bureaucrats not concerned about 11,500 deaths from alcohol/tobacco use/abuse ?

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

Overdose deaths reach ‘epidemic proportions’ in Tennessee State: 1,263 Tennesseans died from opioid overdoses in 2014 http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/sep/28/state-1263-tennesseans-died-opioid-overdoses-2014/327649/ Tennessee has 6.50 million residents out of the 320 million in the entire country… there are abt 550,000 deaths from use/abuse alcohol & tobacco.. using national percentages .. that would suggest that annually TENNESSEE would have abt 11,500 […]

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Guest Post, by chronic pain pt Emily Ullrich

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

After surviving years of marginalization as a chronic pain patient, I decided that self-advocacy was no longer a choice. I live in a state which has some of (if not THE) strictest pain medicine laws that exist. When I was unethically put on a “Non Narcotic Treatment” status by my pain clinic, it became glaringly […]

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why I post/blog about what I do

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

I recently was having a phone conversation with a friend and reader of my blog. The question came up … which actually came via another reader of my blog. That the “direction” of my blog has change over the years.  My blog started its FOURTH YEAR this past June, and my readership/page views continue to […]

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Florida BOP next meeting concerning controlled meds and denial of care

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

September 30, 2015 Advocates in Florida, The next Controlled Substances Standards Committee Meeting will take place on October 5, 2015 at 2pm at the Tampa Marriott Westshore, 1001 N. Westshore Blvd., Tampa, Florida 33607. See the agenda and other details on the Florida Board of Pharmacy’s website. We hope you’ll attend this meeting to stay […]

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