When doctors pass the buck: The ugly side of a shift-work mentality

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/09/when-doctors-pass-the-buck-the-ugly-side-of-a-shift-work-mentality.html “I’m just the night doc,” you said. You said it with emphasis as if that explained everything and dismissed your incompetence, your lack of compassion, your failure to care. Unfortunately my sister was “just the patient,” who lay suffering hours before her death and the RN was “just the nurse” withholding the morphine that […]

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Secret drug raid by feds backfires in Portland: ‘Someone could have been killed’

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/04/secret_drug_raid_by_feds_backf.html Shortly after 9 a.m. on a Saturday in December, two men showed up at the office of a Public Storage warehouse in Southeast Portland and asked about renting space. On-site manager Shawn Riley led them to an empty unit and unlocked it. The pair followed him in, then suddenly drew large silver handguns. One […]

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Three CVS actions raise concerns for some pharmacies, consumers

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180415/three-cvs-actions-raise-concerns-for-some-pharmacies-consumers First, CVS set up a website for consumers to compare drug prices. But the site gave clear preference to CVS pharmacies, automatically putting them at the top of the comparison list. That occurred despite a “firewall” that’s legally required between the drugstore chain and CVS Caremark, the drug giant’s pharmacy benefit manager that runs […]

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