PHARMACIST STEVE

This is from SMART MONEY 10 Things Law Schools Won’t Tell You “We’re being sued by former students.”   Since 2011, a total of 15 lawsuits have been filed against law schools,  claiming, among other things, that the schools inflate job placement numbers. Specifically, the lawsuits allege that job placement rates don’t specify how many students […]

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Are we being to near-sighted by focusing our anger at the MBA’s at the chain stores? I think that we need to look at the larger picture.. The dollars in the healthcare system is neither finite nor infinite and we have so many entities trying to get a “unequal share” of those dollars. We have: […]

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Here is legal paperwork from the Nevada BOP over a medication error.. I have extracted the page that is the response from the RPH.. He admitted that he made the mistake.. AND.. stated that the company (CVS) had previously asked him to do things ILLEGAL and that he had asked for additional staff ..which was […]

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These bureaucrats are so smart… they are expanding a 1990’s system (Prescription Monitoring Program -PMP) … there are still a hand full of states that still don’t have a system in place.. They are even starting to get various states to link together.. so that searching one state’s system will also concurrently search others.  First […]

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You know.. as a society.. we have certain rules by which we all are suppose to live by.. A certain part of our society is against “aggressive interrogation techniques”, torture or other means of getting information from terrorists that are out to kill innocent people. We have laws against mental/physical abusing a spouse.. in some […]

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I am sure that it is just not healthcare…but most of us have some fear.. for the sake of fear or fear of retribution for something that we do.. when we are doing the right thing. I talk with prescribers that are fearful of the DEA.. if they write for too many opiates or controlled […]

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Here is a article from WPTV NBC  affiliate in Florida from last month. What I find interesting is that the chain involved was not named in the article… trying to avoid offending a major advertiser ? But in the article.. it was stated that the RPH was a woman.. so all you male Rph’s in […]

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Yesterday morning ~ 09:30 I get a phone call from a temp service…can you work at this big box store and how soon can you be there? Seems like the RPH of the day didn’t show up to open the pharmacy at 09:00.  I am a night-owl… so I was just starting to think about […]

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Recently Joe Zorek filed a lawsuit against CVS using the whistleblower law… not familiar with the law I looked it up at wikipedia and here is the definition Definition Most whistleblowers are internal whistleblowers, who report misconduct on a fellow employee or superior within their company. One of the most interesting questions with respect to […]

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First it was 16… I could drive 18…. I could vote 21…. I could legally drink alcohol 35 … I could run for President of the US — but I don’t know why anyone would want to TODAY… I go on MEDICARE… This is a bitter/sweet day… I no longer have to worry about Blue […]

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