Fake pharmacist employed by CVS!

[MountainPharmD]

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This is an few years old but note worthy just the same. If anyone out there has any questions as to how bad CVS is here is your answer. They have dumbed down the profession to the point a person with no formal pharmacy education can work for 2 months without a problem. I guess it is a good thing we have a State Board here in Texas! I do not understand why anyone works for CVS or why someone would fill a prescription there. A very scary company.

http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/?ArID=196597

Fake pharmacist busted
By: News 8 Austin Staff

Police say a 26-year-old woman has been filling pharmacy prescriptions with false credentials.

Nancy Rose McGowan has been working at a CVS pharmacy in East Austin for about two months, using the identifying information of a licensed pharmacist and a counterfeit US Army ID card.

She was arrested last Thursday after a Board of Pharmacy investigator reported her to police as a person acting as a pharmacist without a license. The board was conducting a routine compliance check at the drugstore.

According to police, McGowan has no formal education as a pharmacist.

 

[stevephhs016]

This is getting old man. Broken record anyone?

 

[tungsten87]

 

[Jabberwocky12]

Well, I mean forged documents are forged documents. I think the biggest concern here would be how she got around the background check really. But yeah, this is an old story.

But really, working for CVS as a tech there, they really do almost make it impossible to screw things up if you take everything at face value. DUR rejects (most pharmacists just bypass them since they are very sensitive), guidelines for filling controls (don't fill early, look out for tylenol overdosings), etc. and I know some of the big drug interactions (don't drink alcohol with these antibiotics, don't take coumadin with these drugs or alcohol, etc.) since it's a requirement to learn to be a CPhT.

Any of the big bad drugs like tamoxifen or prograf and stuff like that aren't usually dispensed alot and the pharmacist probably didn't have to do much since usually specialists dispense those and they are *typically* more accurate dispensing than general practitioners.

So yeah, it is terrible but it's even funnier that the support system at CVS allows you to get away with it most of the time.

And for those 2 months, that person probably walked away with 20k so they used tech knowledge only and got paid about as much as a tech would make in a year!

 

[rph3664]

Guess they really WILL hire anyone - literally.

This does not surprise me at all.

 

[DYSF777]

I also found this article about two astronauts who landed on the moon if anyone is interested in reading.

http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/oldnews/archives/299

 

[MountainPharmD]

I also found this article about two astronauts who landed on the moon if anyone is interested in reading.

http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/oldnews/archives/299

Were they real astonauts or fake ones who couldn't get hired at CVS first?

 

[MountainPharmD]

This is getting old man. Broken record anyone?

What exactly is getting old? The fact CvS sucks or we keep finding cool stories that prove it?

 

[museabuse]

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[npage148]

Especially with power in AZ.

So... you're saying I can sit at home in my undies and verify while listening to death metal??? Can you email an application. This will expand no pants Sunday to a whole new level!

 

[museabuse]

So... you're saying I can sit at home in my undies and verify while listening to death metal??? Can you email an application. This will expand no pants Sunday to a whole new level!

I am pretty sure you can... unless they have a web cam on you.... even then there is a way around that, I've seen a lot of break in movies....

 

[WVUPharm2007]

lmao...people who aren't even pharmacists find it easier to get a job than me.

 

[DYSF777]

lmao...people who aren't even pharmacists find it easier to get a job than me.

On a side note, I thought it was interesting that the top ten cities to move to either have a dave and busters or one nearby. Maybe you are on to something WVU.

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/best-cities-to-move-to-in-america.html

 

[WVUPharm2007]

On a side note, I thought it was interesting that the top ten cities to move to either have a dave and busters or one nearby. Maybe you are on to something WVU.

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/best-cities-to-move-to-in-america.html

I scrolled down to #1 and laughed my ass off. Hahahaha.

 

[Sparda29]

I scrolled down to #1 and laughed my ass off. Hahahaha.

I'm laughing at 1-3, why would anyone wanna live there?

 

[MountainPharmD]

Yes CVS sucks but Wags has dumbed down the profession even more, I think Wags needs some suck recognition.
Especially with power in AZ.
Pt drops rx in az and tech scans into system. rx get typed up my some tech in FL sitting at home in underwear listening to death metal. Then some pharmacist who should be at home verifying everything typed up correctly but instead is in next room watching the View, let's their 12 yo old kid do the review and sends any rejections back to the store. Then a tech fills at the store. Then the pharmacist who is not allowed to cross an imaginary line that separates pick up from production will only look to make sure the right pills are in the bottle, and assumes all the durs and dosing was verified correctly. That is, if they have time to step away from drive thru....
Yes cvs sucks but the above seems to suck alot too. I guess at least wags don't have to be a telemarketer and beg people to fill 35% of their refills and switch 50% from nasonex to flonase. Or do they?

You are right. There are three megalomart chains that are destroying the profession right now.

1. CVS. It appears they are being run by a bunch of teenages on crack. The amout of illegal stuff they are doing is mind boggling. The disgraced former Rite-Aid CEO Martin Grass is looking forward to the company when Tom Ryan and his croonies are sent to federal prison.

2. Walgreens. The inventor of the pharmacy drive through and a close second to CVS in all that sucks in retail pharmacy. I do agree the POWER program was a monumental f-up. I called a Florida Walgreens for a transfer the other day. Here is the conversation. Idiot Walgreens employee: "Hello! Thank you for calling Walgreens today. My name is technician John Smith and I would be happy to assist you today." MountainPharmD: "I am calling from Texas for a transfer." Idiot Walgreens employee: "Yes, I will be happy to assist you with that. Can I get the patients name, date of birth and prescription number." MountainPharmD: "You said you were a technician correct? Get me the pharmacist." Idiot Walgreens employee: "Yes, I will be happy to assist you with that. Can I please get some information for the transfer from you."

By this time I was getting pissed because it was so obvious I was talking to someone at a central call center. The fake politeness and canned memorized responses to everything were a dead give away. So I give the call center tech all the info and I finally get transfered to a pharmacist. Guess what? He asks for all the information that I just gave the technician. What a freaking joke.

3. Walmart. The inventor of the $4 generics. Walmart has done as much damage to the profession as CVS and Walgreens with this rediculous program. They turned pharmacy into nothing more than the delivery of a commodity as cheaply as posible. Now all people think about when they come to the pharmacy is it on the $4 list, if not how much does it cost and how fast will it be filled. The valuble service we could and should be providing has been sucked out of the pharmacy thanks to Walmart.

 

[rph3664]

Did the Walgreens call center employee sound like they were at a boiler room in India?

As for the $4 prescription thing, nowadays doctors are prescribing based not on what's best for the patient, but on the $4 list. I do understand where it can be useful, but c'mon!