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Whaaaa...?
This is actually incredibly exciting if true...
This is actually incredibly exciting if true...
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Whaaaa...?
m.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/ap...ents-buy-drugs-without-prescriptio/?page=all
this???
Whaaaa...?
m.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/ap... BZDs, and opiates to follow soon. :thumbup:
Sweet! No need to spend all those years and money on getting an MD or PharmD, everyone can start diagnosing themselves! This is only the beginning...look for SSRIs, BZDs, and opiates to follow soon.
It's not really any different from AmeridocAll accessible after you complete a survey online or at a friendly kiosk at your pharmacy.
Whaaaa...?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...drugs-without-prescriptio/?page=all#pagebreak
This is actually incredibly exciting if true...
Why check cholesterol, high dose statin for all and be done with it.
I was wondering the same thing...I don't feel that the majority of the public have a good understanding about statins and such. Remember the tragedy involving with Bengay? You're going to see a lot of people misusing these dangerous medicines, despite advice from pharmacists. They could just come to the pharmacy and buy it w/o any objections. Accidents happen and I believe that you're going to see many cases involved with these drugs in the future.
I'm not a pharmacy student yet and don't have much experience, so I have trouble understanding the advantages of this situation. Someone care to help?
I'm imagining a situation where they aren't in the aisles, but they are behind the counter like Plan B or Sudafed. Bring in your labs...the pharmacist will look at them. You have to read between the lines and see where this sort of thing would wind up if they went down the path...and that's pharmacists potentially gaining access to providing in-depth medication management.
I'm imagining a situation where they aren't in the aisles, but they are behind the counter like Plan B or Sudafed. Bring in your labs...the pharmacist will look at them. You have to read between the lines and see where this sort of thing would wind up if they went down the path...and that's pharmacists potentially gaining access to providing in-depth medication management.
lol so pharmacists have to fill all those scripts, find time to counsel patients and give vaccines and to interpret lab results?? Whose gonna pay for us to interpret these results because doing it free would make no practical sense and even if patients are charged the pharmacist will still get the same salary bc of all the new grads.
Could a clinical services oriented pharmacist not develop in community pharmacies? If the demand is there, why not split off the job into separate niches. This has developed with inpatient pharmacy so why not community? As it is, many of the older rphs I work with have no desire to do anything beyond dispensing while a lot of the newer grads are interested in clinical services.
I could see a role for BCPS certified ambulatory care and/or pharmacotherapy cerfified pharmacists. Still, they would have to compete with NP wages. Then again maybe they would have their own clinic space at Walgreens and some would take the $80-90K salary to do it. We are still not diagnosticians though. And never will be.
This is why our profession will never make progress. I chose to become a pharmacist to be an expert in medicine, but sometimes I wish the pharmacy school curriculum would give us some training in diagnosing patients. Whenever we would come up with an idea to add more roles for our profession, it seems as if other health professionals would snatch it away from us...
This is why our profession will never make progress. I chose to become a pharmacist to be an expert in medicine, but sometimes I wish the pharmacy school curriculum would give us some training in diagnosing patients. Whenever we would come up with an idea to add more roles for our profession, it seems as if other health professionals would snatch it away from us...
We're just not diagonisticians.
I mean the best, realistic theory is for an MD to write a diagnosis on the prescription and then then PharmD to prescribe the medication to conform with patient's allergies, insurance, brand/generic desire, etc. But it's just not ever gonna happen.
I wish this would happen since it makes sense to have the med experts do the med decisions.
Problem is you'd need a full chart. Patient just comes to the pharmacy with a rx saying "HTN", you have no clue what else is happening with that patient. You don't have the labs or the history or a physical exam. I, for one, wouldn't feel comfortable just prescribing to the diagnosis without seeing the reason the diagnosis was made. And patients can't be trusted to bring an insurance card, so they're sure as hell not going to bring a chart. Maybe this could work in a hospital setting. No way it flies in retail.