Imagine a disease so prevalent 40% of adults & 20% of kids deal with it yet treatments out of reach

Posted on January 5, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

CMS Moved to Expand  Drug Coverage. Private Insurers Need to Step Up https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/113572 In July 2024, Joseph Zucchi, PA-C, MPAS, wrote about how stigma and misconceptions   were creating barriers to GLP-1 obesity medication uptake, on top of systemic barriers like high costs and inadequate insurance coverage. As part of our review of the past year’s […]

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Chronic pain pt gets fired from job because her Pharmacist refused to fill her pain medication

Posted on January 5, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

                    Back  in the day, when I was in pharmacy school we were taught that we were an IMPORTANT PART OF THE SYSTEM. We were to make sure that the pt was not allergic to a new medication(s), the new medication(s) could cause some serious drug […]

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We are OK – surviving our major weather even (snow, ice, sleet, rain)

Posted on January 5, 2025 by Pharmaciststeve

I am writing this on Saturday night @ 6PM (EST) UPDATE Sunday 6:50 PM (EST): Our outside cameras around our house, it looks like it just started raining and the ambient temp is 26F.  Educated guess is that it is FREEZING RAIN. To point, we still have electricity from Duke Energy. They are forecasting a […]

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