CVS Places Consumers at Risk of Harm, And is Destroying the Profession of Pharmacy! – PART 3

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Pharmaciststeve

CVS Places Consumers at Risk of Harm, And is Destroying the Profession of Pharmacy! – PART 3 https://pharmacistactivist.com/2020/March15_2020.shtml I have come to recognize that the CVS situation is even worse than I thought. CVS pharmacists and technicians respond to my editorials with their own experiences that are so outrageous that none of us could make […]

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Sometimes the bureaucracy sides with the pt when they feel they have been short-changed with their care

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Pharmaciststeve

Does a practitioner’s ethnicity effect the care they provide to females ? I made the above blog post back in Nov 2019. Concerning Barb’s experience on a < 24 hr hospital admission and a hospitalist that our hospital requires pts to be seen by and our PCP is no longer allowed to see his pts […]

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NC Board of Medicine – must have a bunch of “loose screws”

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Pharmaciststeve

https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2020/3/10/tweet-led-to-dr-kline-losing-his-dea-license How can anyone from a medical licensing board that would take a complaint from a person that does not even live in the state where the doc is licensed to practice and has never been a pt of the doctor to take a twitter complaint SERIOUSLY ? But apparently Julie Roy ( @royjulie33 ) […]

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Could CVS pharmacists become “MORE UNCOMFORTABLE” in filling controlled Rxs ?

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Pharmaciststeve

                          If you notice in this graphic the Management Team member FAILURE TO REPORT IN A TIMELY FASHION A POTENTIAL VIOLATION OF LAW OR COMPANY POLICY RELATED TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES  can result in disciplinary action – including termination on FIRST OFFENSE We have […]

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Could handling USA paper currency cause you to fail a urine testing for opiate/illegal substance ?

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Pharmaciststeve

The DEA Is Worried Sick About Touching Contaminated Drug Money https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-dea-is-worried-sick-about-touching-contaminated-drug-money The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is so concerned that drug-laced cash seized in narcotics busts could seriously injure—even kill—its agents, it has begun reaching out to potential industry partners about decontaminating confiscated currency, The Daily Beast has learned. “Some of the substances on […]

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Combating the Opioid Epidemic with the False Claims Act

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Pharmaciststeve

Could this same law be used against docs that are “forcing” pts to have ESI… Since the primary category of meds used in the ESI are Corticosteroids and both the FDA and the primary pharma that makes this category of med DISCOURAGES this category of med being used in ESI.  There are many countries that […]

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Losing Faith in My Profession

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Pharmaciststeve

I can so relate to the situation that a daughter/son/husband/wife can encounter with a loved one in a healthcare facility (hospital, physical rehab, nursing home, etc, etc).  More times that I wish  when Barb has been in a facility and I have had to bring into the conversation that ” I’m am a Pharmacist” to […]

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Dr. Thomas Kline, MD, PhD: Medical Myths Revealed –Pharmacies: It’s Not Their Fault

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Pharmaciststeve

Pharmacies have started turning away people with opioid prescriptions, or giving them half-doses because the pharmacies are being shorted by distributors . But the Pharmacies are trying but you don’t receive your shipment of automobiles you’re not gonna sell any cars. If distributors decide without your permission or standardization with the help of analytic hired […]

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CVS Places Consumers at Risk of Harm, And is Destroying the Profession of Pharmacy! – PART 2

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Pharmaciststeve

CVS Places Consumers at Risk of Harm, And is Destroying the Profession of Pharmacy! – PART 2 https://pharmacistactivist.com/2020/March_2020.shtml Most of the responses I received to Part 1 of the series of editorials (February issue of The Pharmacist Activist) on this topic are from two groups of individuals. Current and former CVS pharmacists and technicians voice […]

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PBM: why your prescription COSTS TOO DAMN MUCH !

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Pharmaciststeve

PBM Express Scripts: PROFITS TRIPLED TO $4.5 BILLION in just 4 years, while REVENUES DECLINED AND PRESCRIPTIONS PLUMMETED? How Possible? https://drugpricetruth.org/pbm-express-scripts-profits-tripled-to-4-5-billion-in-just-4-years-while-revenues-declined-and-prescriptions-plummeted-how-possible/ There is only one explanation – A massive increase in secret “fees” from their drug company collusion “partners”, directly tied to skyrocketing U.S. brand drug prices/price increases, FOR DOING FAR LESS WORK. Below are […]

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