PHARMACIST STEVE

This is from Rite Aid’s website:

https://www.riteaid.com/pharmacy/about-our-pharmacists

What makes Rite Aid pharmacists unique? For starters, they understand the importance of providing you with personalized care. Not only have our pharmacists received the extensive education necessary to meet state licensing requirements, all our pharmacists are certified to provide immunizations. But it’s their daily interactions with customers like you that matter most. All customers can securely email questions directly to a Rite Aid pharmacist. As a wellness+ member, you can also live chat with a pharmacist 24/7.

How Can Your Pharmacist Help You?

Rite Aid pharmacists do much more than dispense prescriptions. They are also medication experts who play an important role in keeping you and your family healthy. Your pharmacist can:

• Answer your questions: What does your medicine do? What are its side effects? And is it safe to take with your other prescriptions? Your pharmacist knows and wants to help you get the most from your medications.
• Help you save money: Your pharmacist can tell you if a generic medication is the right choice, help you save with our Rx Savings Program, and answer questions you may have about prescription insurance coverage, including Medicare Part D.
• Provide immunizations: Rite Aid pharmacists offer flu shots, shingles immunizations and other vaccines. You never need an appointment and we accept many insurance plans.
• Work with your doctor: Our pharmacists communicate directly with your doctor when they have questions or concerns about your prescriptions. They also keep a detailed history of your medications and can ensure that you are at the lowest possible risk for overdoses and adverse drug reactions.

The better your relationship with your pharmacist, the better they can serve you—so stop by your local Rite Aid and get to know your pharmacist today.

Sounds pretty good ???  If you are a RPH or a pt… makes you want to “get on board” !

Then here is a email that was received by The Pharmacy Alliance…from one of these “valuable Rite Aid Pharmacists”

I’ve been licensed in XX since XXXX. I think it’s unfortunate that big business comes before our patients, and ourselves as professionals. I worked for Rite-Aid for XX years. As pharmacy manager, I made a decision to see that a patient would get her medication. The patient was completely out, frantic, and had no other way of getting it. After speaking with the patient and the  daughter, I made arrangements for my spouse to deliver the meds to the patient. There was no HIPPAA violation and no law was broken. I was fired for doing what I felt was morally and ethically the right thing to do. I did this for my customer with no expectation from a company that I had given way too much to for XX years. Going in early, staying late, going in on my day off and when I was sick, no lunch and waiting hours to use the restroom. Missing more of my child’s events than any parent should and always caring way too much about my customers. This company does not care about it’s employees…I found out very definitively the hard way, and that it doesn’t really matter. Because…they. can. do. what. they. want. No one will stop them. I’m hopeful to find a better company to work for. I know that they are out there.

I do not know the age of this RPH.. but.. what was stated could easily be a “Senior RPH”… and this RPH worked in a “at-will” state.. but.. age and seniority may have caught up to the RPH.

Kind of reminds you of a NASCAR race.. you go a bit too slow.. you lose the race.. you try to go a bit too fast and you find yourself against the wall.. and you lose the race… it is like walking a very thin line.. and one perceived wrong move and you find yourself.. out in the street.. maybe this “job” should be viewed like a hurdler running  a race.. all you have to do is get over the hurdle… a 1/8″ clearance is as good as several inches… why waste the energy to do more.. than what is the minimum requirements?