At Walgreens, Complaints of Medication Errors Go Missing A Walgreens pharmacy in Times Square in Manhattan

At Walgreens, Complaints of Medication Errors Go Missing https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/health/pharmacies-prescription-errors.html Pharmacy employees at Walgreens told consultants late last year that high levels of stress and “unreasonable” expectations had led them to make mistakes while filling prescriptions and to ignore some safety procedures. But when the consultants presented their findings at Walgreens’s corporate offices this month, there […]

pharmacists help people live their healthiest lives

Pharmacists for Healthier Lives Offers Perspective on Opioid Crisis Pharmacists for Healthier Lives (PfHL) – a coalition of pharmacy and healthcare organizations raising awareness of how pharmacists help people live their healthiest lives – today announced the launch of a campaign designed to   educate consumers on the critical role pharmacists play in helping patients […]

Restore Patient Rights to Treatment for Pain

https://www.change.org/savepainmanagement Because of years of government intrusions into the medical profession’s legal opioid prescribing for patients suffering pain, these are our concerns and the dire consequences we implore you to bring to an end: 1.  The “Opioid Crisis” is an “Illegal and Illicit Drug Crisis” falsely blamed on legal prescriptions. 2.  Millions of Americans Forcibly […]

PLEASE REACH OUT TO THESE ATTORNEY’S IMMEDIATELY!!!

Any Chronic Pain Patients who have had any PHARMACY OR PHARMACIST REFUSE TO FILL A LEGITIMATELY WRITTEN PAIN PRESCRIPTION PLEASE REACH OUT TO THESE ATTORNEY’S IMMEDIATELY!!! Here we go people, Here We Go!!!! https://seekingjusticeforpainpatients.com/

CVS Places Consumers at Risk of Harm, And is Destroying the Profession of Pharmacy! – PART 1

CVS Places Consumers at Risk of Harm, And is Destroying the Profession of Pharmacy! – PART 1 CVS Places Consumers at Risk of Harm, And is Destroying the Profession of Pharmacy! – PART 2 CVS is Destroying the Profession of Pharmacy – PART 3* CVS is Destroying the Profession of Pharmacy – Part 4 CVS […]

Express Scripts signs 3 yrs contract and then wants to renegotiate (lower) reimbursements in the third year.

Notice that Express Scripts (ESI) specifically mentions the recent law that no longer allowed this PBM and others PBM to “gag” pharmacist from telling pts that they could PAY CASH for the Rxs and pay less than the PBM would charge the pt. Now the pharmacist may initiate the discussion with the pt that there […]

Robbery is suppose to be ILLEGAL – except for the insurance/PBM industry ?

  Here is another article about CVS/Caremark padding their own pockets and paying their competitors “pennies” over what they were paying their own CVS pharmacies.  The survey was on over 250 different common medications and when a state employee had a medication filled at at a CVS .. .the CVS store was paid a AVERAGE […]

Dr. Greenspan violated nine laws and/or the American Medical Association Code of Ethics and agreed to disciplinary action

Portsmouth pain doctor reprimanded by state board https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190710/portsmouth-pain-doctor-reprimanded-by-state-board PORTSMOUTH — An American Pain Institute physician agreed with the state Board of Medicine to accept a reprimand, get additional medical education and pay a fine for medical misconduct related to his discontinuing treatment for a pain patient. The physician, Joshua Greenspan, agreed to the discipline, according […]

The “drug czar” from Bush ’41 – has been a convert concerning the opiate crisis

 

As seen on a local pharmacy – Rx dept- shelf… where does your medication come from ?