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Same author as the CVS reporting. Walgreens now in the barrel.
Correction: “chain” retail pharmacy.That's two front page articles about how dangerous retail pharmacy is to consumers.
About timeThat's two front page articles about how dangerous retail pharmacy is to consumers.
NYT, BBC, or whatever top newspaper can report on these dangerous errors in chain pharmacies but nothing will happen anyways. Congress won't do crap about it. This is not new...
I bet the exec named in the article never thought she would make the front page of NYT!
Do people still read the paper? I feel like a TV news report would be more effective.
Maybe they will write an article about Walmart too.
Walmart, Costco, Kroger have other business. So they're better than CVS, Walgreens. I wonder if CVS, Walgreens become Pillpack soon.Tbh Walmart is not at this level. As much as we talk crap about them, they provide adequate help to get things done.
NYT, BBC, or whatever top newspaper can report on these dangerous errors in chain pharmacies but nothing will happen anyways. Congress won't do crap about it. This is not new...
But if they don't do this, they can't compete with Pillpack, mail order...She should be disgusted with herself for what she has allowed to happen to her profession.
I have a feeling there will be a "reassignment" position for her very soon.
Not from what i heard. Haha. One dude i know wants to leave bc theyre cutting hours.Tbh Walmart is not at this level. As much as we talk crap about them, they provide adequate help to get things done.
She got paid. She dont care.She should be disgusted with herself for what she has allowed to happen to her profession.
This is not true at all... They can regulate the industry. The regulation should be x amount of pharmacist and tech hours per number of prescriptions.
This number should be decided on by a panel of representatives such as “experts in the field” ie: pharmacists..
I would love to see her made the PIC of a dumpster fire busy pharmacy and see if she can hang.
Looks like we might get to hear her speak after all:
Great . I like senator Blumenthal!Love to hear.
Hope they can't buy him 🙂
Not from what i heard. Haha. One dude i know wants to leave bc theyre cutting hours.
I agree. I worked at Walgreens as an intern and had 3 APPE rotations with CVS. I prefer Walgreens. Rarely had to pick up the phones. They have ppl to type and review remotely.From what I have seen, Wag people aren’t too terribly unhappy with their job. Yes they give you bare bone hours, but they aren’t as aggressive with their metrics as cvs. They don’t track you making compliance calls for example.
They would my pick as next preferred employer after walmart based on what I have seen. No one is as bad as cvs.
You realize indies make more profit per script than chain right?I wonder what independent owners would want this number to be. Might crush them if the need to choose between not filling more prescriptions because they can’t afford another pharmacist or getting another pharmacist and not getting enough scripts to cover the additional cost. Imagine being only one script over the limit? Just enough to be too much but not enough to cover the cost.
Deans of schools are oblivious to the situation. They dont even know what DIR fees are. They cant figure out why this saturation happened and how to fix it. How do i know this? Bc i just spoke to one.Again, where is alpha, cpha, deans of schools?
From what I have seen, Wag people aren’t too terribly unhappy with their job. Yes they give you bare bone hours, but they aren’t as aggressive with their metrics as cvs. They don’t track you making compliance calls for example.
They would my pick as next preferred employer after walmart based on what I have seen. No one is as bad as cvs.
Deans of schools are oblivious to the situation. They dont even know what DIR fees are. They cant figure out why this saturation happened and how to fix it. How do i know this? Bc i just spoke to one.
You realize indies make more profit per script than chain right?
You realize indies make more profit per script than chain right?
Mainly because of dir fees and clawbacks.I did not know this. Why do so many independents close then?
What you said is a contradiction. If theyre running at a loss then how is that making a profit?Not every indy is more profitable than every chain. Chains can run some stores at losses if they want. Can an indy?
From what I have seen, Wag people aren’t too terribly unhappy with their job. Yes they give you bare bone hours, but they aren’t as aggressive with their metrics as cvs. They don’t track you making compliance calls for example.
They would my pick as next preferred employer after walmart based on what I have seen. No one is as bad as cvs.
Yes they give you bare bone hours, but they aren’t as aggressive with their metrics as cvs. They don’t track you making compliance calls for example.
Cvs is definitely worse (worse computer system, more audits and busy work) but Walgreens has no pharmacists in charge really. As an RXM I was asked by my store manager to not really call the healthcare supervisor when I had a concern as he is just “too busy,” but he was the only rph in charge and for over 4 districts. When I staffed my RXM wasn’t giving shots correctly and was sending patients to the ER, was not reporting the errors and I was asked by my store manager to basically not tell anyone since that was just really bad for business. Um how about patient care? I reported everything to LP but nothing really came of it. Should’ve reported to the board. I really enjoyed the first couple years at Walgreens and didn’t feel too pressured by them but after this happened I really couldn’t continue working for them.
Yeah.That sounds preposterous.Pure curiosity here.. how was your rxm not giving shots correctly and why was he sending them to the ER?
It is not the online stores. It is the low reimbursements and dir fees of pbms. Online pharmacies are not the problem. Amazon does not have the grasp of pharmacy as it does in other retail. Mail order, although messed up and stupid, does not affect enough to a point where it forces cvs and wags to close down and walmart to cut 40% of its pharmacists. It is the PBMs. Look into it. Seriously.I'm so sorry for this profession. I still see that this is not the worst yet. CVS and Walgreens are still trying to cut costs and close more stores. They can't compete with online stores.
I'm not sure if we should blame them.
People still sign up for school. Obviously most of them are not smart and don't know what else they can do for their life. I'm not sorry for them. They deserve to work minimum wage job in the future if they don't have any luck.
I'm against Bernie's student loan forgiveness. American colleges have to be cheap or free first.
The shingrix came out and this rph was giving the shots too low, too high and even admitted to me they may have given a couple subQ. then later patients told me about the same issue with a prevnar and later on told me about the previous year’s flu season where they went to the Er for not being able to move their arm and that they told the Rxm about it. I checked for the stars events and they weren’t in the system.Yeah.That sounds preposterous.
The shingrix came out and this rph was giving the shots too low, too high and even admitted to me they may have given a couple subQ. then later patients told me about the same issue with a prevnar and later on told me about the previous year’s flu season where they went to the Er for not being able to move their arm and that they told the Rxm about it. I checked for the stars events and they weren’t in the system.