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I am told that this lawsuit is :
CVS has another class action. This time for not paying for time during smock checks, bag checks and time to label personal stuff like water and gum etc. I can scan entire paper if interested.
That this will be settled.. without admitting any wrong doing… so as to save the time/expense of litigation
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http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/barbara-boland/over-214000-doctors-opt-out-obamacare-exchanges
From the article:
Over 214,000 doctors won’t participate in the new plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA,) analysis of a new survey by Medical Group Management Association shows. That number of 214,524, estimated by American Action Forum, is through May 2014, but appears to be growing due to plans that force doctors to take on burdensome costs. It’s also about a quarter of the total number of 893,851 active professional physicians reported by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
In January, an estimated 70% of California’s physicians were not participating in Covered California plans.
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From the article:
Meanwhile, the public defender’s office says it’s still scrambling to handle the influx of defendants trying to clear their records. “Obviously, if it’s a person’s only felony offense, there are very significant collateral consequences,” said Nicolas Hughes, an assistant public defender who’s been tasked with handling the cases. “It could have changed the trajectory of someone’s life.”
For instance, even a misdemeanor marijuana conviction can have life-altering ripple effects. Defendants could have been denied student loans. “There could be job consequences,” Hughes said. “What if someone had been an educator or something like that? Even a whiff of that could end somebody’s career.”
Hughes says part of the problem is there’s no standard protocol for what happens when a negative lab report comes back after someone’s already been convicted.
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http://youtu.be/8UMyz7ClFVE
Good Faith Policy or Opiophobic Pharmacist ? Why would anyone spend their hard earned money in any store that treats you like this..? This is the Pharmacy that America Trusts ?
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Can you imagine this many OD’s and not one of them being recorded as an attempted SUICIDE .. what are the odds of that ?
From the article:
Study finds that 68% of ER patients who overdosed on opioid drugs took pills prescribed by a doctor
Doesn’t say that the doctor prescribed them for the person that OD’d
A new analysis of 2010 data from hospitals nationwide found that prescription painkillers, known as opioids, were involved in 68% of opioid-related overdoses treated in emergency rooms.
Opiates were involved.. but.. were not the only substance in the pt’s system ?
The crisis had long been blamed on pharmacy robberies, teenage pill poppers and the black market. But a 2012 Los Angeles Times study showed that physicians played an important role in prescription drug overdoses. The Times analysis of 3,733 fatalities found that drugs prescribed by physicians to patients caused or contributed to nearly half the deaths.
MORE THAN HALF of the deaths were caused by ILLEGAL DRUGS.. also they failed to clarify if the meds prescribed.. were for the person that OD’ed on them.
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http://www.johnfloydlegal.com/Medical-Malpractice/Medication-Errors.shtml
Medication errors are a significant cause of injuries, complications and even fatalities in the medical malpractice context. Nothing is more alarming than discovering you received the wrong medication or wrong dosage.
Medication errors such as drug overdoses, incorrect administration, inaccurate dosages or missed doses can result in serious health problems
Pharmacists can also be held liable for malpractice if they dispense an incorrect prescription or dosage. They can also be responsible for missing critical drug interactions that are harmful or fatal to the patient.
So if a Pharmacists denies to fill a valid Rx or makes a pt wait three days without pain medication… is being thrown into withdrawal and elevated pain considered a “serious health problem” ?
It would seem that from the copy on this attorney’s website… the answer would be YES !
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So where does pharmacy come in? Pharmacies have a proactive role to play in five performance measures of the Medicare prescription drug plan (Part D) and three are directly linked to patient adherence to specific medications
If a pharmacist sees that a patient has filled their statin therapy twice and then stops, it is important to find out why according to Virtuous Circle Counselling. “If you have a patient who can’t afford the drug, then think about what other alternative you can offer them within that same [medication] class and talk to the doctor about having them change to a [more affordable] statin. Because if the patient stops after two fills, that will negatively affect the star ratings,” Zaibak said.
The fifth performance measure calls for the elimination of high-risk medications in the elderly. “The list of high-risk medications is a little different from the Beers criteria. Do your pharmacists know what’s included in that list?” Zaibak asked.
By working with prescribers, you will be able to help ensure that patients have better outcomes and avoid medications that could be risky, Zaibak said.
Will opiates be considered “too dangerous” and used as another reason to deny or try to limit pain meds and controls in this population ?
They promised no “death panels” … they didn’t say anything about denial of service panels !
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http://wvrecord.com/news/270336-man-says-cvs-wrongly-gave-him-chemo-drug
From the article:
CHARLESTON – A Cabell County man is suing over claims a pharmacy gave him the wrong prescription.
Joshua D. Hartsock filed a lawsuit Sept. 5 in Kanawha Circuit Court against West Virginia CVS Pharmacy, John Doe pharmacists, pharmacy supervisors, and pharmacy technicians, citing negligence.
According to the complaint, Hartsock went to the CVS Pharmacy on U.S. 60 in Huntington on July 7 to have his prescription for Lamictal refilled, but he was informed they were out and to come back the following day.
Hartstock says the CVS employee would not inform him of the medical use of the medication he’d been mistakenly taking, so he contacted a Rite Aid store, which said they could not give medical advice, but to get to an emergency room immediately.
According to the complaint, upon arrival at the hospital, Hartstock learned he’d been ingesting the prescription drug Lomustine, a toxic chemotherapy drug used for the treatment of brain tumors and Hodgkin’s disease. The defendants are accused of negligence.
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If you can imagine this… we are experimenting with
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3365524/
and yet we can’t do clinical trials on MMJ ? Maybe because those in control of this country is FULL OF SHIT !
Did shit get approved as a “orphan drug” ?
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