Let me clarify, you believe ALL retail sites are basically the same? Very interesting but you are totally wrong. Believe it or not I was trying to make a point. I feel if you stand in front of a computer all day verifing a technician put the right pill in the bottle and that is it, you are not practicing pharmacy. Basically, you are a factory worker doing assembly line work that anyone can do. Which is quite accurate for Walgreens. I mean you have a moving conveyor belt, not much different than working in a factory.
Of course. They have the same operating principle, the differences are purely cosmetic - some minor differences in what functions can support staff perform, and the computer system, and the compensation/benefits package, and shifts. The principle is still the same - receive the script - check the script - dispense the script - counsel on the script.
And what possesses you to think that Walgreen's pharmacists stand in front of the computer and do nothing but verify scripts all day? No, there are probably some that do that, but it's their personal (in)competence problem, not Walgreen's. I am sure the patient with whom I spoke for 45 minutes and ended up sending her to the ER when she called asking whether there are some OTC meds for nausea would be very surprised. I think people at busier retail chains are more suited to multitasking - I can verify AND answer the phone AND help out a colleague at the same time. It always makes me smile when my grocery store counterparts complain that they had a busy day and they only did some 60 scripts. And yes, I counsel on every new scripts (that's not just good practice, that's the law!). And there isn't a shift that I don't make several phone calls to the doctors about their patients' regimens. And I answer a ton of OTC questions. So please don't try to pretend your personal delusions about Walgreen's are a set-in-stone hard truth.
🙂 You have a problem with conveyor belt? Too bad for you. It keeps my counter clean, and reduces clutter AND resulting medication errors - it amazes me how people can work with twenty scripts for ten different people cluttering one tiny little piece of the counter, pushing on each other.
I am however having some trouble picking up on things like sarcasm so its possible I may have missed something.
That's OK, I find your oh-so-Midwestern blindness to anything beyond your own nose rather amusing even if you don't get it.
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Oh, I have no time for spelling or grammer.
Oh, believe me, I've noticed. I just doubt I would want my family's meds filled by someone with such amazing attention to detail, who is, moreover, averse to letting a computer check such basic things for him.
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