Some of the things that show up in my inbox .. quoting what some young (& stupid) DM or PDM has said to a Senior RPH… just amazes me…
I have worked as a Kxxxx pharmacist for over half of my career, Senior RPH, in same location for nearly a decade. my dm came in to evaluate me recently …our store has just undergone a remodel. I was informed that the boss wanted “fresh new faces” in his new remodeled pharmacy and I would no longer be staff pharmacist at that location.
Can you spell E.E.O.C. ? (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
The TPA (The Pharmacy Alliance) is hearing more and more of such situations… Those RPH’s who contact an attorney to send a letter, before they are shown the door… tend to fair better… Once the attorney’s letter hits the chain’s legal dept… all actions against the RPH quickly comes to an abrupt halt. Most of the RPH that I am aware of.. it buys them enough time to find another job and they also end up with at least a settlement from the chain.
I have said it before.. and I will say it again.. document.. document..document all corporate wrong doing… If you are 45 -50+ and 10+ yrs on the job.. you have a target on your back.. and there will be some 2000 this year.. increasing to 4000/yr by 2017-2018.
Filed under: General Problems
lately i have been talking to many of my friends who are pharmacy customers. I have heard nothing but compliants about all the new “fresh faces’ in the area pharmacies. Amazing, one of the first things they tell me is how they know I can ‘run circles’ around all these ‘fresh faces’ and I’m not talking about meeting metrics. My friends have changed pharmacies upteen times just to find someone who seems to seriously care about their health care and get their prescriptions filled correctly and not lie to theim as to why they can’t get their chroinic pain miedication. I know telling them to file a BOP complaint is probabaly uselsess because the chains make up a majority of the BOPs.
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The Indiana practice act says that a Pharmacist should not do anything to HARM A PATIENT… could denying a patient their necessary/legal meds… and throwing them into withdrawal and elevated pain levels.. be considered HARMING A PATIENT? As soon as some eager attorney latches on to this… denial of care/service and the resulting harm.. is going to make some attorney very rich…