PHARMACIST STEVE

Here is the “guidelines” for Ohio and prescribing opioids for Non-Terminal Pain. I did a “word search” for PHARMACOGENOMICS TESTING and it did not appear once in these guidelines. So these guidelines appears to be created by one or more people who is still functioning with a 20th century medical mind set/education. Just take a […]

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CMS Moved to Expand  Drug Coverage. Private Insurers Need to Step Up https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/113572 In July 2024, Joseph Zucchi, PA-C, MPAS, wrote about how stigma and misconceptions   were creating barriers to GLP-1 obesity medication uptake, on top of systemic barriers like high costs and inadequate insurance coverage. As part of our review of the past year’s […]

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                    Back  in the day, when I was in pharmacy school we were taught that we were an IMPORTANT PART OF THE SYSTEM. We were to make sure that the pt was not allergic to a new medication(s), the new medication(s) could cause some serious drug […]

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I am writing this on Saturday night @ 6PM (EST) UPDATE Sunday 6:50 PM (EST): Our outside cameras around our house, it looks like it just started raining and the ambient temp is 26F.  Educated guess is that it is FREEZING RAIN. To point, we still have electricity from Duke Energy. They are forecasting a […]

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UPDATE –This Pt posted a updated last night that SHE IS OK! State Attorney Generals have sued the 3 major drug wholesalers and major chain pharmacies and getting them to agree to pay millions/billions in fines because – according the DOJ/DEA – they were accused of contributing to our fabricated Rx opioid/opiates crisis. They also […]

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Worse Outcomes After Esophagectomy at Private Equity-Owned Hospitals Structural elements of private equity ownership linked to higher mortality, complication rates https://www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyoncology/othercancers/113623 Esophagectomy outcomes trended in the wrong direction at hospitals owned by private-equity companies, a review of more than 9,000 cases showed. Statistically significant differences existed for 30-day mortality, any complication, serious complications, and failure […]

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I got a phone call yesterday. Actually this young woman was trying to send me a text message, pushed the wrong button(s) and ended up calling me. She was probably in her 30’s, she said she had a 12 y/o who had developmental issues. She told me that she had been diagnosed with a STAGE […]

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I asked www.perplexity.ai this: how many people become chronic pain patients every day from accidents, injuries or new diagnosis of a painful disease Based on the search results, approximately 52.4 new cases of chronic pain occur per 1,000 persons per year in the United States[4][6]. This translates to about 143 new cases of chronic pain […]

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It is a fairly well accepted theory that under/untreated pain can/may cause elevated blood pressure and also that the 4 or 5 different categories of Pharma produced blood pressure meds will not do little/nothing to lower the pt’s blood pressure, because there is a separate biological pathway that is used to elevate blood pressure that […]

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The FDA Hasn’t Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw, 1 Potentially Deadly https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-pharmaceuticals-recalls-fda-oversight Reporting Highlights Flawed Drugs: Indian drugmaker Glenmark Pharmaceuticals issued a string of recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly. In one case, the company said the problem could be deadly. Anemic Response: Since the recalls, the FDA […]

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