More effective than a video camera ?

Rossville pharmacist armed: Robbers willing to kill for pain meds have druggists defending themselves http://timesfreepress.com/news/2013/aug/11/pharmacists-fight-back/ From the article: A shotgun hangs for all to see behind the counter at Longley’s Pharmacy in Rossville. “I have it here as a subliminal reminder that I do have a weapon,” pharmacist Jerry Grimmitt said. — Some media reports […]

Hi Steve, I just stumbled on one of your blogs

My name is XXX, a one-year old in the profession of pharmacy. I recently put down a 2 week notice of resignation as pharmacist in one of XXXXX busiest areas from my current employer CVSCaremark. I love my job as a pharmacist and really do care for the well being of my patients…but the cvs […]

Express Scripts comes in SECOND !

Worst companies to work for in 2013 http://money.msn.com/investing/worst-companies-to-work-for-in-2013-1   No. 2: Express Scripts Rating: 2.3 Number of reviews: 312 CEO approval rating: 36% (George Paz) Employees: 30,215 Express Scripts (ESRX) administers the prescription drug benefits for millions of health plan members in North America. With the acquisition of Medco Health Solutions last year, the company now fills more […]

Did anyone notice ?

One of the pharmacy’s notorious bloggers The Candid Pharmacist – PHARMACY WARRIOR  has quietly dropped off the blogging radar… This RPH is alive and well and still focused on improving our work environment… This RPH has left behind the Rx computer system, counting tray and all the normal trapping of a community RPH …but has […]

Talk about your fuzzy math !

Yesterday I posted about the CEO of CVS getting a 30% increase in pay as well as the stock holders getting a 30% increase in dividends  LET THEM EAT CAKE ! From recently released revenue statement from CVS… the company posted a ~ 20% gain in EPS ( earnings per share) … so how does […]

Let them eat cake !!

CVS CEO Larry Merlo’s pay jumps to more than $18M http://www.wpri.com/dpp/money/business_news/cvs-ceo-larry-merlo-pay-hit-18m-last-year While the “rank and file” gets a reported staffing cuts of 10% and raises of 1% +/- … The “head” of this corporation gets a 33% BUMP in pay… and increases dividend to stock holders by some 30%.. Is it just history repeating itself […]

One of the most trusted professions ???

This was posted on another blog this weekend… by a RPH…   I was at CVS and witnessed the front end people having to check the pockets of the RPh before he left the store. Is this what retail has come to? SO glad I left…

CVS Caremark to pay $20 mln to settle SEC claim

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cvs-caremark-to-pay-20-mln-to-settle-sec-claim-2013-08-02 Once again .. no corporate execs go to jail.. I am beginning to think that the feds are seeing these types of fines .. just another tax revenue stream… and by letting the corporate execs “off the hook” chances are they will do something else illegal/stupid… for which the feds can hit them again […]

I survived my first month

About one month ago I wrote … What have I done… This has been one of the most interesting working months of my life… I have staff in at least five other locations than the one that I work in… a total of some 45 employees all told. There is a national payroll company that […]

Thanks to all my readers

July 2013 proved to be the month with the largest number  of page views – EVER  .. for my blog.. In looking back to the numbers for July , 2012.. this July’s page views were THREE TIMES a year ago.. In looking back.. I really started to routinely posting in Sept ,2011 about the same […]