PHARMACIST STEVE

This big PR push by CVS to highlight that they are stopping the selling of tobacco products.. brings to mind when Wal Mart drug out their launch of their $4 /Rx program. Big press release when they started in one district or one state.. and then they rolled it out 1-2 states at a time..each […]

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This showed up in my inbox..  on previous occasions, I have made the offer to post on my blog.. other Rph’s “true story” about how they have been treated – or mistreated – by their corporate employer..  All too many have told me – in bits and pieces – their story… Here is one RPh’ […]

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46 CVS Reply ISO MTD.pdf 46-1 46-3 46-2 After reading things like this… I know why I could never be any attorney.. this kind of stuff makes my eyes roll back into head.. *A few points of interest… CVS claims that they are not a “public body” *They claim that the PIC is NOT RESPONSIBLE […]

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AG Gansler comes to settlement with Md. Rite Aid http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/2014/02/06/gansler-settlement-rite-aid/5254533/ We have already seen the amount of waste that mail order pharmacies cause   http://www.ncpanet.org/pdf/mail_order_waste.pdf From Article: Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler made the announcement and stated the pharmaceutical retailer will pay $20,000 to the Maryland Medicaid Program and a portion of the money will […]

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I recently wrote about someone tail-ending my daughter’s new car… https://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=4953 she was sitting still at a stop light/sign.. The person that hit her was insured by STATE FARM.. Over the years.. I have had two accidents with vehicles insured by STATE FARM.. in both incidents.. my vehicle was STOPPED and in both cases STATE […]

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This commercial is suppose to give you the warm fuzzies about dealing with Progressive Insurance. At least on one incident… this proved to be 180 degrees from the truth. Our only daughter/child is a divorced single Mom that lives about 550 miles from us.. This past summer my wife flew down to visit her and […]

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 new 800 lbs gorilla in the room ? Okemos Rite Aid Settles After Refusing Flu Shot To HIV+ Man http://www.wlns.com/story/24635348/rite-aid-settles-after-refusing-flu-shot-to-hiv-positive-man From the article: The United States Justice Department has reached a settlement with a mid-Michigan Rite Aid after they refused to give an HIV positive man a flu shot. “Erecting unfair and discriminatory barriers to […]

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The number of Rph’s that contact me.. regarding all the shenanigans that pharmacy employees are having to endure.. while still trying to do their primary functions of filling prescriptions accurately and helping people properly manage their health.. is growing weekly. I am also being contacted.. in increasing numbers.. by pts.. particularly chronic pain pts.. in […]

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http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/pharmacy-tracking-not-slowing-tenn-meth-production Pharmacy tracking not slowing Tenn. meth production Here we have a system (NPLEX)  that .. just like all the PMP’s.. does not validate the driver’s license number against the state’s BMV database.. to see if it is valid. Just  Google “how to make a fake ID” and see how many pages show up with […]

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Source: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death being treated as an accident. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/02/03/philip-seymour-hoffman-death-accidental-overdose/ It would seem that those in our society would believe that they can’t go low enough to find ways to help make sure that the war on drugs keeps getting funded by Congress. Suicide is impulsive… here we have a former addict… that was […]

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