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Thank you to everyone who participated in the #Pharmacist tweet-a-thon on Thursday, Oct. 3. Members from 53 international, national, and state pharmacy associations participated in the tweet-a-thon as well as members from 23 other pharmacy organizations. More than 7,100 tweets were sent out that day sharing stories of pharmacists helping patients. From preventing adverse drug reactions and incorrect dosages, to saving patients money and educating them on new medications, the stories were diverse and inspiring. Your efforts helped #Pharmacist become the number one trending health care hashtag on Oct. 3. Keep sharing your positive stories about the many varied ways pharmacists contribute to our health care system and our communities
Let’s do the math… there is some 300,000 RPH’s in the US… how many in INTERNATIONAL associations? Let’s presume that there are some 500,000 RPH’s in that professional pool… If each of the 7100 Tweets were from a single RPH.. that would suggest that between 1%-2% of the RPH’s bothered to do their first Tweet … Maybe 98% did not do anything that benefited a pt on that given day.. maybe they were too busy with the metrics to bother with helping a pt?
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