PHARMACIST STEVE

I recently was having a phone conversation with a friend and reader of my blog. The question came up … which actually came via another reader of my blog. That the “direction” of my blog has change over the years.  My blog started its FOURTH YEAR this past June, and my readership/page views continue to grow, so there seems to be a growing interest in what I put on the blog.

Originally, the blog was to focus on how our healthcare system is harming and killing us. With all too much of the harm that our healthcare system does to pts, settled with confidentially/non disclosure agreements… Much of it is buried in corporate archives, probably never seeing the light of day.

Few pts ever heard about the 100,000 pts that die of hospital/nursing home acquired infections. Certain groups use the number that 44 K die of drug overdoses, but when you dig down into the weeds… abt half of those deaths are from OTC medications and only about 16 K deaths are from Rx opiates and as a society, we don’t track .. how many – out of those 16 K deaths — are suicides.. not a TRUE accidental overdose… of that mentally ill person that was seeking out that “higher … high”…

So… my blog has expanded to point out and discuss… how people are being abused, harmed, killed by those in authority over them in some fashion. Doesn’t matter if the abuse is coming from legislators, judicial system, healthcare system or others that have some sort of ability/authority over others and use that to impose their will – legally/illegally – on others

I try to avoid posting about elected officials, but those agencies within the bureaucracy is – as far as I am concerned – fair game… as is corporate America. If a pt sends me audio/video about being denied care by a individual healthcare professional… I will post it..  If you think that you are protected by your state’s two party recording law, those laws were written referencing “private conversation” and was focused on recording telephone conversations.  IMO, it is a extreme push to believe that the conversation at the pharmacy Rx dept counter is “private”.. thus these laws are most likely not applicable nor enforceable.

I can’t remember deleting a comment from people who take an opposing stance on what I have posted… my blog doesn’t even require someone making a comment to give a name and email. Unlike me, there are a lot of people who don’t have the conviction of their beliefs to put their name/email on their comments.

I am sure that the number of comments would drop if I turned on the name/email requirement to make a comment, but then my regular readers would not get to see/read just what some people really think about what is going on in our healthcare system… and how they defend their actions and the reasons for their actions.

I welcome anyone who wishes to submit a guest post from both healthcare professionals and pts…

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