PHARMACIST STEVE

We met with Dr’s and Medtronics this morning with minor child..7 years old with Spinal Bipita and a few other issues. Child walks on all 4″s as her little spine is very crooked! (Poor Baby) Medtronics is willing to try a pain pump but needs to have a corporate meeting and have several discussions on […]

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Pfizer Study Shows Vaccine Booster Should Protect Against Omicron https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/964431 A raft of new studies released overnight that looked at the ability of Omicron to evade an array of currently available vaccines, suggest a substantial loss of protection against the highly mutated variant. The new studies, from teams of researchers in Germany, South Africa, Sweden, […]

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Supreme Court Set to Weigh in on the Opioid Epidemic in Three Important Physician Cases https://medium.com/@fightthefeds/supreme-court-set-to-weigh-in-on-the-opioid-epidemic-in-three-important-physician-cases-c5b6cc0219eb The Supreme Court will decide United States v Ruan and United States v. Kahn and likely United States v. Naum and determine if a physicians prosecuted by the federal government can be convicted for violating an objective standard of […]

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APDF’s  VP Bob Sherrin a pediatric pain advocate …met today with this pt’s prescriber and her parents and after over six weeks of suffering from 3rd degree burns and painful debridement WITHOUT ANY OPIATES FOR HER  PAIN …. she got her first opiate Rx and her first dose today. Up until today, Vanderbilt Hosp had […]

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When a Pharmacist tells a pt that “I’m not comfortable” and refuses to fill a prescriptions – particularly a controlled substance –  typically they have NO VALID CLINICAL REASON to refuse to fill and deny care.  In fact, I wish that pts would ask these pharmacists that use this “excuse” as a reason to deny […]

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Walgreens apologizes after failing to notify parents of canceled child vaccine appointments https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/05/walgreens-cancels-vaccine-appointments/ The drug store chain declined to say how many families were turned away but said it is working to fix its system Dania Palanker and her 7-year-old daughter, Nadia, felt excited as they bundled into the car in Washington last week to […]

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