can’t stand the “heat in the kitchen” or collateral damage ?

This article by David Lazarus… was concerning the “best practices” email from a CVS  PDM Ryan Barna concerning doing whatever it takes to get auto refills up and calls to pts to pick up their Rxs to increase Rx volume…  this article was Oct ,2012

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20121005%2C0%2C1097807.column

According to Ryan Barna’s www.LinkdedIn.com profile  http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=19516772&snapshotID=159964473&authType=name&authToken=22LN&trk=EML_nus_prof-FBackfillKafkaConsumer&ut=2YlmoetMV0TBI1&_mSplash=1

By Dec, 2012.. he was out of

District Manager Emerging Leader

CVS/Caremark

Training to become a District Manager

to …

Pharmacist In-Charge

CVS/Caremark

and this month … according to this profile…

Ryan T. Barna, PharmD

Safety Surveillance Associate

Pfizer

Since he had only worked for 22 months after graduation from Pharmacy school

Pharmacist

CVS/Pharmacy

Maybe the work environment that he supervised and promoted for  nearly 6 years,  was an impossible work environment to practice in?? .. or just another another RPH tossed to the curb because he accidentally called attention to himself…

District Pharmacy Supervisor

CVS/Caremark

5 Responses

  1. I know Ryan Barna. I was honestly shocked that he still had his job with CVS after the article in LA times.

  2. How does cutting tech hours by 20% and demanding the the staff just “pick up the pace” make for a healthier work force?

    http://seekingalpha.com/news-article/6497641-cvs-caremark-publishes-new-corporate-social-responsibility-report

  3. Remember Steve..I predicted he would be out !!!

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