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Here is a 1999 study on how distractions and interruptions can impact on how many medication errors can happen in various practice settings. Here we are 13 years a later…. expecting to handle more volume/hr and has the layout of many Rx dept and/or system/procedure have changed over the past decade for the positive? Here […]
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According to this article .… According to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy, ApothéCure personnel in January 2007….. prepared 175 mL of colchicine solution at a concentration of 3.2 mg/mL, put 5-mL portions into 35 vials, and affixed labels stating the vials contained 1 mg of colchicine per 2 mL. Is this another situation that […]
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One would think that in the war on drugs that all state agency would be “on board” and part of the team According to this article in the DENVER POST in Colorado the Colorado BOP has denied the request of the state’s Medicaid dept to have access to their PMP… to help deal with doctor […]
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For decades… BTC (Behind the counter) class of drugs … or Pharmacist only class of drugs.. have been discussed. It is being thrown out there again… We all know that gross expenditures are going to go thru the roof… if Obamacare is implemented… and while the idea of “death panels” have been toss around… and […]
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Well…. the FTC & Justice has remain true to their previous favoritism to PBM’s and mail order. Back when Merck bought PAID.. there was suppose to be a “firewall” between the two.. and after violation of that firewall time and time again… they just spun it off as MEDCO.. We now have the same situation […]
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Here is the website I did a search by name and guess whose name – at the corporate level – DID NOT SHOW UP – WALGREENS & CVS BUT…. WALMART & RITE AID are on board…
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Over the last month we have seen a airline attendant “losing it ” on a American Airlines flight she was on. A couple of weeks later we hear about a Jet Blue airline Captain “losing it” mid-flight. Depending on how you look at it… there an be a lot of similarities between our work environment […]
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Pharmacy Roulette – you bet your life ! The intent of this Facebook page is to focus on all the things that we Pharmacists deal with… from a system perspective … that can induce medication errors. It will also be a place to place newspaper and TV articles about how corporate pharmacy deals with various […]
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I just got a automated phone call from EXPRESS SCRIPTS… wanting to let me know that I could have “home delivery” of my prescriptions and that I could “save money” by talking to one of their representatives ….so that they could transfer my prescriptions to them. Has anyone else noticed that all the push for […]
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According to a AP news release These four stores were each selling SIX-SEVEN times store of similar size in the rest of the state… According to the article: The stores aren’t doing anything wrong, said Lt. Mike Goff, the State Police’s clandestine laboratory training and response coordinator. They follow existing state law by selling pseudoephedrine […]
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