from the Ohio Pharmacists Assoc. Journal, “Ohio Pharmacist.”
from the president’s message February 2015 issue:
“What I would like to see is a course given by OPA…could teach professional survival, to include whether one should carry individual personal liability insurance…training from a human resources attorney, advising what and how a pharmacist could document happenings when they get that feeling that something isn’t quite right, especially if dangerous practices have been point out to management. Older pharmacists also need this training as I know personally of instances where individual pharmacists have been let go (especially if they have accrued three to four weeks of vacation per annum, or are simply high on the wage scale), only to be rehired shortly thereafter by the same corporation with entry level wages and benefits.”
—OPA President Robert O. Schmoll, Jr., RPh
There has been a number of us for years that have stated that while pharmacists are highly educated and very bright people.. their knowledge base of the laws that they operate under are limited to those directly affecting the practice of pharmacy… but.. since around 2/3 of these Pharmacists are employees and it would seem that academia could care less about taking any course time to educated these future Pharmacists/employees on the laws of business and their employers would seem to prefer that their employees are “ignorant” of business law.. it makes them that much more pliable in following corporate mandates/edicts that may be questionably legal. After all the employed Pharmacist is expendable and easily replaceable. After all, the chain has now shifted most of the administrative tasks of operating the Rx dept to the tech staff.. so all they really need is a warm body with a license to keep the dept legal and functioning …
“Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
― Will Rogers
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