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I am just licensed in my home state. I signed a 4-year contract with a very, very punitive no compete clause. At this point, I know I need to do something but the board is giving me very strange advice. I am the only prescriber at my facility; the 3 other providers are PT and OT
The clinic owners, who only went as far as high school, began picking up the patients' medication when the local pharmacy went out of business and they feared that patients would go elsewhere because of the one hour drive to the nearest pharmacy. I was leery of this both ethically and from a safety point of view but I was basically shouted down by the clinic owners when I objected
They do not pick up the patients' medications on time; many of these medications are rxd neuroleptics that, when stopped acutely, lower seizure threshold. Sometimes patients run out of their medications for weeks before this clinic goes to the pharmacy. Due to this issue and literal hundred of angry or desperate calls from patients that the pharmacy that this clinic utilized, the original pharmacy they were working with has stopped doing business with them.
I was very recently informed that many of the patients controlled substance are picked up at the pharmacy but are stolen from the clinic before the patients receive them. The pharmacy called to inform me and patients have also told me that this is happening. This is not surprising since I walked in last week to find hundred of prescriptions (bottles in the prescription bags) left in the waiting room on a table. These included many, many C2 substances controlled by me.
My Board told me to gather information before I leave to make sure my legal interests are protected BUT I am really worried about staying any longer. Also, I know that they are going to sue me when I leave. I have spoken very, very badly about them but only out of all the frustration of having every other patient (literally) not receive their medications that I am giving them. They will also come after me for violating the no-compete.
Everyday the nurse tells me "I have more bad news about Ms./Mr. Z" and when I ask what it is, it is about how my next patient never received their medication from the last visit, usually from weeks ago.
The clinic owners, who only went as far as high school, began picking up the patients' medication when the local pharmacy went out of business and they feared that patients would go elsewhere because of the one hour drive to the nearest pharmacy. I was leery of this both ethically and from a safety point of view but I was basically shouted down by the clinic owners when I objected
They do not pick up the patients' medications on time; many of these medications are rxd neuroleptics that, when stopped acutely, lower seizure threshold. Sometimes patients run out of their medications for weeks before this clinic goes to the pharmacy. Due to this issue and literal hundred of angry or desperate calls from patients that the pharmacy that this clinic utilized, the original pharmacy they were working with has stopped doing business with them.
I was very recently informed that many of the patients controlled substance are picked up at the pharmacy but are stolen from the clinic before the patients receive them. The pharmacy called to inform me and patients have also told me that this is happening. This is not surprising since I walked in last week to find hundred of prescriptions (bottles in the prescription bags) left in the waiting room on a table. These included many, many C2 substances controlled by me.
My Board told me to gather information before I leave to make sure my legal interests are protected BUT I am really worried about staying any longer. Also, I know that they are going to sue me when I leave. I have spoken very, very badly about them but only out of all the frustration of having every other patient (literally) not receive their medications that I am giving them. They will also come after me for violating the no-compete.
Everyday the nurse tells me "I have more bad news about Ms./Mr. Z" and when I ask what it is, it is about how my next patient never received their medication from the last visit, usually from weeks ago.
