Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. While most people are aware of breast cancer, many forget to take the steps to have a plan to detect the disease in its early stages and encourage others to do the same. We have made a lot of progress but still have a long way to go and need your help!
http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-awareness-month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Breast_Cancer_Awareness_Month
http://www.cancer.org/healthy/morewaysacshelpsyoustaywell/breastcancer
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Hello Steve I am a 35 year veteran nurse author researcher and presenter for one of the nation’s top institutions. I had to let you know your advice on schedule drugs is so dead on. I often feel like I am at war with my pharmacist colleagues. As a patient provider. if I have written a prescription for my patient , it is after a thorough review and clinical skills have been implemented in that decision. For a pharmacy tech to deny a refill because they neglected to add in today, as a day of pill count (ie use) is barbaric to chronic pain sufferers. Prescribers typically use due diligence in identifying pain pill abusers and certainly don’t participate in that behavior. To have a pharmacy tech refuse to fill my patients prescriptions because they cannot count the days appropriately is very frustrating for me, creates additional work for myself and staff and certainly gives the patient great anxiety.
I hope your reader regarding the post about CVS pharmacy took absolutely every step you outlined. That pharmacy in particular, from my experience, has un educated staff denying patients much needed medication, based on their own poor counting skills.
I feel with Obama care, the expectation is all patients report insurance at the pharmacies however if they can continue to obtain medication by paying cash good for them! I will MAPS a patient, that I have doubts about and manage that on my end. I do not need pharmaceutical interference.
You are truly a man of medicine and are being a great patient advocate. We need millions of us to March on Capitol Hill and help these poor people who do suffer at the hands of a CVS, because their body has failed, leaving them chronic issues. Too much government in medicine.
Thank you for fighting the good fight !