When asked why we talk the talk but don’t walk the walk on patient safety in
the pharmacy, with regards to understaffing the pharmacists, this was the
response. It is the age old question of front-end vs. back-end. Do we pay
a pharmacist’s salary up front in hopes of preventing an error or do we just
accept that errors are going to occur and pay the lawsuit on the back-end?
Up front it is a definite expense to pay wages and benefits so it is better
to just cross our fingers and hope an error doesn’t occur. Makes you feel
all warm and fuzzy about going to the hospital doesn’t it?
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Explains much of what’s going on with staffing levels doesn’t it?