Corresponding responsibility and RED FLAGS
This is a video from the NABP ( National Association of Boards of Pharmacies ) of the six financial sponsors of this video.. THREE are the THREE major drug wholesalers .. that are rationing the quantity of control meds that community pharmacies can purchase.. but not rationing to hospitals, nursing home pharmacies and hospice pharmacies .
They also make statements in the video …like.. 50% of the population takes at least ONE PRESCRIPTION… doesn’t say that they are controlled prescriptions.. since around 20% of all prescriptions filled are for controlled meds.
Also notice within the video there is not mention that the Pharmacist has the corresponding responsibility that legit pts get their medically necessary medications.
Bottom line.. if a Pharmacist is looking for a reason to JUST SAY NO… most likely.. they will find one…
Filed under: General Problems
A red flag is a nautical term fur a warning. Warnings are not facts. They need to be heeded, and incorporated into a decision making matrix, informing the decision maker, not hijacking the decision.
Ship captains and pilots ignore red flags at their( and our) peril, yet we trust them to choose well.
Captain Sullenberger chose to put his plane down in the Hudson. It worked out well, but the protocol actually called for jim to return to LaGuardia, which would have led to the demise of all souls on board and many on the ground.
We need our professionals, especially physicians to keep their independent judgement. NOT just follow irrational checklists. Medicine is an ART.
Red flags call for caution, not hysteria.
I agree fully, if a pharmacist feels that the patient has displayed any type of Red Flag “(WARNING)” then they should contact the prescribing physician to assure no mistake or deception has taken place. This video has only show very poor and extremely obvious reasons for a pharmacists to take warning. There was no comparison to an actual legitimate controlled substance prescription. This video, at least to me is telling the pharmacists and pharmacy employees that every narcotic prescription is a red flag.
Every month I feel like I have to jump through hoops to get my Norco filled and every month I end up arguing with the pharmacist about my prescription.
My doctors office is over 30 miles away from where I live, the pharmacy is less than a mile from my house and this must set off one of the pharmaceutical world’s red flags. I don’t drive 60 some odd miles from home every month just to get pain medications. I drive this far because the other doctors who have offices near me are IDIOTS.
This pharmacy that gives me crap monthly is also a chain pharmacy and customer service doesn’t seem to be totally forgotten. I miss my small town or neighborhood pharmacy, the one where the pharmacist new who you were and could answer questions without sarcasm. Just in recent years, I’ve watched 7 home town (privately owned) pharmacy’s close down. Not because they were doing anything wrong, but because they were ran out of business by chain pharmacy’s with their 15 minute guarantee and their fast food drive thru window service. Frankly, I hate chain pharmacy’s and would rather pay more to be able to actually speak with a pharmacists than talk into a speaker.