Pharmacist should be exploiting the f*@& out of this...

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Worried about the future of pharmacy? Well, this is what happens when lay-people try to disrupt prescription drug healthcare.


Chasing Growth, a Women’s Health Start-Up Cut Corners - New York Times

'The pills were kept in the pockets of a shoe organizer hanging inside a closet, Mr. Cronin said. They had been shipped to Nurx customers from its partner pharmacies, but ended up at the office when they bounced back in the mail. His supervisors regularly assigned him to mail those same medications to different Nurx customers who had not received their pills, he said.'

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I've been curious about how compliant some of these lifestyle startups have been with pharmacy law. Men's health services are a dime a dozen now, and I understand they are slinging Viagra and testosterone left and right.
 
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Who the hell names their feminine healthcare company something that sounds so guttural? Why the hell would they put Chelsea Clinton on the board of directors? Why isn't that dude being arrested for illegally practicing pharmacy?

And you know sooner or later Merlo is going to have pretty much the same thing running through his Minute Clinic. Log into the CVS app. Get a CNP on Skype. Pay with your CVS/Aetna heath coverage. Get the pills mailed to you from your local CVS/Pharmacy. Paid for by your handy CVS/Caremark pharmacy benefits provisions. All they need now is to buy a generic drugs manufacturer and an army of drones to deliver everything and they'll have complete vertical integration. Nobody could compete.
 
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I've been curious about how compliant some of these lifestyle startups have been with pharmacy law. Men's health services are a dime a dozen now, and I understand they are slinging Viagra and testosterone left and right.
They do hair loss meds, not testosterone. Testosterone (or any controlled substances) without an in-person relationship is very illegal.
 
State boards of pharmacies are so ineffectual when it comes to regulating companies but love to come down hard on pharmacists. I'll admit I get a chuckle out of watching all these telemed companies ignore state medical and pharmacy boards.
 
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Call your local DEA field office and see how little a **** they give when it comes to telemedicine and controlled substances. Meanwhile board inspectors are up pharmacist's asses for frivolous complaints.
 
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Like how many lumens your light bulbs are?
 
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Worried about the future of pharmacy? Well, this is what happens when lay-people try to disrupt prescription drug healthcare.


Chasing Growth, a Women’s Health Start-Up Cut Corners - New York Times

'The pills were kept in the pockets of a shoe organizer hanging inside a closet, Mr. Cronin said. They had been shipped to Nurx customers from its partner pharmacies, but ended up at the office when they bounced back in the mail. His supervisors regularly assigned him to mail those same medications to different Nurx customers who had not received their pills, he said.'


I love the parts of the article about inconvenience and empowering the patient.....blood clots in the lung ( and possibly the brain) are apparently a small price to pay for convenience..and they are very empowering!!!
 
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Ms. Kovaleski, who said she would be on blood thinners for the rest of her life, said too much responsibility had been placed in her hands.

“I guess it’s scary to think that something that has such a strong potential of hurting somebody and causing death is so easily attainable,” she said.

Yep paternalism when it's "scary" or you want to sue someone
 
They're not legal in Texas but does the TSBP really have jurisdiction to tell us to deny the fills? How are we supposed to know that the patient practitioner relationship is invalid because they didn't have an in person visit first BEFORE the teledoc visit?
 
Worried about the future of pharmacy? Well, this is what happens when lay-people try to disrupt prescription drug healthcare.


Chasing Growth, a Women’s Health Start-Up Cut Corners - New York Times

'The pills were kept in the pockets of a shoe organizer hanging inside a closet, Mr. Cronin said. They had been shipped to Nurx customers from its partner pharmacies, but ended up at the office when they bounced back in the mail. His supervisors regularly assigned him to mail those same medications to different Nurx customers who had not received their pills, he said.'

Meanwhile your local board of pharmacy inspector is writing someone up for switching Proventil to Ventolin without documentation
 
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