Filthy Pharmacies

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Estrace

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I don't understand how anyone can work in a very filthy pharmacy. I'm talking disgustingly filthy, dead and live roaches, dusty, dirty trash cans, dirty refrigerator, expired drugs everywhere, and stacks of papers from 10+ years ago. How clean is your pharmacy ?
 
OK thinking of roaches in the pharmacy makes me :vomit:

I keep a clean pharmacy personally. No excessive clutter, no binders full of reports from ages long ago, etc. I clean the counters regularly and keep all paperwork organized and 'culled'. The only thing I slack on is dusting the stock shelves. Dust bothers me and I don't go out of my way to disturb it. I try to check dates regularly but every once in a while I will find something expired on the shelf.

I also do not understand the mentality of dirty and/or unorganized pharmacies.
 
Stacks of papers and expired drugs would drive me nuts. I know the state board specifically looks for outdates and I'm pretty sure roaches are an issue.
 
Then this one tech wipes his nose with brown paper towel and drops them everywhere. So gross!. Nobody says anything to them.
 
are u gonna report it to the board? if not how are u different from them?
 
Estrace said:
I don't understand how anyone can work in a very filthy pharmacy. I'm talking disgustingly filthy, dead and live roaches, dusty, dirty trash cans, dirty refrigerator, expired drugs everywhere, and stacks of papers from 10+ years ago. How clean is your pharmacy ?
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Where do you work where there are live roaches running across the floor?
 
I am not in the business of reporting people to the state board. I hope they do something about it after I told them how gross their work environment is.
 
Estrace said:
I am not in the business of reporting people to the state board. I hope they do something about it after I told them how gross their work environment is.
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Then what are you in the business of? Any responsible pharmacist or health care provider would report issues like this to their respective boards. You simply hoping they do something about it after you telling them is a joke and it's you fooling yourself and trying to make yourself feel better.

You don't report people to get them in trouble. You report people when their actions can negatively affect the welfare, health, and safety of the public, and in turn actions are done by the board to improve the situation for the public.

When you don't report issues like this and you are aware of it, you are just as guilty for letting a pharmacy run like that, knowing they are dispensing medications to the public in a dirty, filthy pharmacy.

Please don't be like all these other pharmacists who don't have a backbone.
 
If you are working in this nasty-ass pharmacy and not doing anything about it, then you are part of the problem. The level of filth you describe is surely against your local health codes (do local health departments check out retail pharmacies? I've seen them check out hospital pharmacies.)

Don't you work for a chain? What does your district manager think about that level of filth?
 
I can't not survive a week in that level of filth and that's why I was surprised that anyone could work in an environment like that . Filth, dust, and clutter bug me so my work environment has to be clean and organized.
 
I took over a store once that was filthy. Not roaches (that I saw, anyways), but nasty enough that I'm sure they were around. The counting trays were crusted with pill residue, and there was a layer of who knows what all over everything. I basically cleaned and disinfected that store non-stop for days.

It was appalling.
 
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