PHARMACIST STEVE

I got this email forwarded to me today.. from the most unlikely of  places – DRUG TOPICS… apparently this patient is so desperate – and maybe suicidal – about being able to get her medically necessary meds… she even wrote to DRUG TOPICS trying to get some help in getting her medical necessary meds filled. […]

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Bill to legally distribute medical marijuana in Louisiana proposed http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20140404/NEWS01/304040027/Bill-legally-distribute-medical-marijuana-Louisiana-proposed?nclick_check=1 From the article: The therapeutic use of marijuana has been legal in Louisiana since 1991, but the act passed that year failed to provide a mechanism to facilitate dispensing or purchasing of marijuana. Mills, who works as a pharmacist, addresses in his bill how medical […]

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I received this email today from a former PIC with GUESS WHO ! Document everything – but 1 person’s word against a company ? As a former  PIC, I had to have back surgery in xxxxx. I returned to work in xxxxxx with some restrictions  (no lifting of >20 lbs., a chair to allow me […]

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This past week has been  – IMO – has been one of the worse for hypocrisy on the tube. First it was the couple who were apparently “multi-millionaires” , living on a 1+ million dollar yacht and collecting MEDICAID BENEFITS for years. I heard one “talking head” say that with as large as the Medicaid […]

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Are we changing the basic definition of  “practicing medicine” ? Historically the practice of medicine is the interactions between a patient and another person that has a license to practice medicine/dentistry etc. Physicians have had their licenses suspended, revoked or sanctioned because it was believed or proven that that they prescribed medication without physically examining […]

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http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/fiscal/mbr130/comparedoc-in.pdf Board of Pharmacy executive director requirements PRXCD4 4729.03 R.C. Removes the requirement that the Executive Director of the Board of Pharmacy be an Ohio licensed pharmacist in good standing. Fiscal effect: None. This is apparently something that the Ohio Legislature is considering..  it is on page 80 of the above linked *.pdf Of course, […]

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Bauder’s pharmacist indicted on 16 federal charges http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2014/04/02/bauders-pharmacist-mark-graziano-indicted/7215835/ From the article : State regulators raided the store in May 2012 after an informant reported that Graziano had been selling large bottles of hydrocodone pills out the pharmacy’s back door. Graziano has steadfastly denied wrongdoing, but the Iowa Board of Pharmacy voted last April to revoke […]

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Yesterday it was an investigation of the Indiana BOP involved with WAGS Today it is calling for an investigation of WAGS in Florida So many getting caught with their hand in the “cookie jar”.. http://www.advfn.com/nyse/StockNews.asp?stocknews=CVS&article=42660125 https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/cia/agreements/cvs_cia_executed.pdf From the Article: Twenty-four states are participating in the multistate investigation of CVS Caremark Corp.’s (CVS) business practices, as […]

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 http://www.whas11.com/news/indiana/Indiana-1–253530471.html Indiana authorities bust most meth labs in the US From the article: “We had 135 labs in the five counties, that’s Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott, and Washington counties. The year before that we had 125 labs,” Goodin said. Little did I know that I live in the “heart of meth country in Indiana”.. I […]

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Consumer group alleges Walgreens model breaks law http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/20/4006705/consumer-group-alleges-walgreens.html First it was Indiana.. and the BOP is now under investigation from the OIG and Ethics committee .. Now complaints against WAGS in Florida  ONE DOWN .. 29 to go ?? Protecting Public’s Health and Safety or Self serving ? From the article: The “Well Experience” is […]

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