Spread of For-profit Medicine May Pose Patient Safety Threat

http://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20141203statelegretail.html

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North Carolina AFP EVP Greg Griggs, M.P.A., C.A.E., addressed the rapid rise of retail clinics in his state and the changes these clinics have instigated in recent years. The state’s first Minute Clinic opened in the Raleigh area in 2005. At the time, company representatives specified that the range of services the clinic would provide would be narrowly focused on allergies, sinus conditions, strep throat and vaccinations. CVS Corporation (now CVS Health) bought the company in 2006.

In subsequent meetings with the North Carolina AFP, the North Carolina Medical Society and others, Minute Clinic representatives told the groups that the clinics would be staffed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants and that a physician located no farther than one hour away would serve as medical director for the clinics. The chapter later learned, however, that the organization’s first medical director was licensed to practice in North Carolina but actually lived in Las Vegas.

“That was the first hint that they were not telling us the whole truth,” Griggs said.

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Serious Medication Errors Must be Reported – for Educational and Preventative Purposes!

http://pharmacistactivist.com/2014/November_2014.shtml#feature

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How often do serious medication errors occur? There have been varying estimates but the truth is that no one really knows. There are no requirements that serious medication errors have to be reported and, if anything, there is a disincentive to share/communicate information that would reflect negatively on the individual responsible for an error. Sometimes an error and its consequences are so serious and obvious that the situation reaches the attention of the news media. In other situations, however, even fatal medication errors never become known to individuals other than those most directly affected because a lawsuit is filed, an out-of-court settlement is reached, and a condition of the settlement is that the terms be considered confidential.

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We have dinner with friends of ours and their daughter/son in law and one of their grandkids.. The daughter is a nurse that works part time in a pediatric office. She was explaining how she had to go to FIVE pharmacies in Florida to get TWELVE DOSES of a opiate Rx for her 12 y/o son.. that had just had his wisdom teeth pulled.

She was also relaying that some of these Pharmacists are calling and questioning antibiotic dosing for peds..  She had more than her “2-cents” worth of opinion about how Pharmacists are interfering and consuming time to question the most innocuous issue(s)

We have been friends with her parents for long before she was born… so I am very familiar with how impassioned she can get about certain things.

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I have heard of our legal system fabricating/planting evidence and/or with holding evidence to create a WIN..  According to this.. only some knowledge of a pt having some access to opiates – no proof of taking – no toxicology verification.. a conclusion can be made that the opiates contributed to your death.  This is the same system that is determining what “excessive prescribing” is by a prescriber.

did you know that if you filled a script for a pain med within a year of your death or have any pain meds in your home or on your person at time of death they can add pain meds to cause of death and count you to the number of dead due to pain medication? I found this out when my sister died. At first cause of death was heart related. After the police came to ask questions regarding her sudden death and found that there was an unfinished bottle of pain pills in the bag of meds we turned in after her death, suddenly her death was treated as drug related. She had a dental procedure months ago and apparently only took two leaving 10 pills in a script for 12. I counted all the pills before turning them in for our own protection. It’s unlikely she died from two pills and since we couldn’t ask her when she took them I was upset that her death certificate was changed to include opiates as contributing. I never got anything showing opiates in her blood, I don’t know that they checked. I do know she is counted in the numbers used by the DEA to cover them for their actions against pain meds which effect us, our doctors and the pharmacies. This is only going to get worse with the DEA using pharmacies as investigators against doctors and patients. I’ve read of others who’s death certificates were changed because the person was basically near a pain med and might have taken one prior to death. They add it as contributing.

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Confidence high, but store remains dry

Ocean Beach pharmacy awaits judgment on liquor-license application

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When the drugstore chain first revealed more than a year ago it was sizing up the long-vacant, former Apple Tree supermarket at 4949 Santa Monica Avenue as a potential outlet, CVS made it clear it would only do so if alcohol was a part of its retail offerings.

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Ten Ways the War On Drugs Violates the U.S. Constitution

http://www.thefix.com/content/how-drug-war-violates-constitution?page=all

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Investigation underway to determine why rocuronium, a paralyzing agent, was given instead of an anti-seizure medication

http://www.ems1.com/ems-products/narcotics-security/articles/2034630-Medication-error-causes-death-of-Ore-ED-patient/

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