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I sent an email and I will forward any contact information I get about who made this decision. I don't even work retail and I'm pissed about this. We've sat on our duffs long enough while corpo pharmacy has screwed us over. Eff that.

I'm not sure I see the problem. If this offends pharmacist, and frankly it should, then simply don't work there. That will stratify the pharmacists that don't suck, with pharmacists that do suck. Eventually these stores will be sued into changing the policy or stop dabling in pharmacy.![]()
I'm not sure I see the problem.
Ok, let's be real here for a second.
You can't see the problem? The problem is that it is a legitimate public health hazard. This goes beyond our quality of work or the legitimacy of our profession - this is something that WILL negatively affect patient care. This WILL put people ask risk for no other reason than marketing. Frankly, if I lived in the same state, I'd be on the phone with the Board of Pharmacy tomorrow demanding that something be done about this pharmacy's grossly negligent policy. This is no different than using medications that have been coughed on by people with ebola. This is just flat out ****ed up beyond belief.
I <3 the analogy.Its offensive because i didnt go to f--k--- school for 6 years to give away god damn movie tickets and dinners and $25 gc for transfers. This isnt a freaking game show, it a profession. Seriously, if you dont see a problem with this, then I cannot help you. I am the antichrist when it comes to GC of any other incentive to fill a damn rx. Heres your damn GC now get out. Transfer in, transfer out, in, out, in out. Its out of hand. There should be no incentives or kick backs to fill an rx. If the wait is a hour, its an hour. End of rant...
Not mad at you KUmoose, just thinking about the gc I gave away today. Thats all...

Actually you are mad at me, because you took it as a literal I can't see a problem. I see several problems with this policy. But the ultimate problem is that you fail teh interweb sarcasm.
I see lots of problems with this and if were that worked up, I would bypass the company since they've already decided where their interests lie and move to the BoPharmacies covered by those stores, pharmacists working there and legistlatures in those states. Show them the litany of literature that says speed is inversely proportional to positive patient outcomes. Get the pharmacists to leave en masse from the store and picket. Grass root those *****s back into their bean counter offices.
That's what should be happening. The reality is there are pharmacist ****** that think patient care is, solely, not screwing up the prescription the doctors sends in, nothing more and nothing less. They look to do their 12 hour shifts make high 5/low 6 figures and go home. They are the pharmacists that they shouldn't bother with immunizations and that actually talking to a patient only happens when they're cute/hunky. They are the same people that sit in therapeutics class annoyed that they actually have to learn how to prioritize conditions and make recommendations based on that heirarchy and whine that they want to work retail why should they have to answer drug information questions "that's something /HOSPITAL/ pharmacist are responsible for and I wanna work retail." So do I see a problem with this? Yes. I just happen to think the bigger problem is that we are ineffective in bringing the right people into pharmacy, that will look to expand the borders of responsibility more then a corporate decission based on customer feedback.

Ok, let's be real here for a second.
You can't see the problem?
Normally I wouldn't double post but.... Of all the people, I figured you'd be the last one to bust my chops. I would have thought my whole response about advocating for major adverse events might have been a clue as to my thoughts on the subject but apparently I'll have to tag my posts [sarcasm][/sarcasm] from here on out.

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My question is what about the people whose doctors need to be called? Do they then bill the dinner/movie out to the doctor's office for being slow?
I am surprised no one has proposed complaining to the state board yet.
This goes far beyond anyone working for this company. It's not a matter of don't like it, don't work there. We know that this gift-card-4-dollar-ass-kissing-drive-thru sickness spreads like the clap in a sorority house. The 19 minute promise will become the 18 minute, the 17, the 5 minute...
It's insulting to the entire profession. This is what I wrote to Ms Rockwell at the address given in the press release. No response yet. I must find the next person to write to...
"Dear Ms. Rockwell,
I am writing in response to your news release concerning the "19 Minute Promise" policy that has been implemented in your pharmacies. I'm very thankful I do not work in one of your stores where the work of pharmacists and technicians is so undervalued that it can be compared to pizza delivery. You state that accuracy is already in place in your pharmacies, and I beg you to consider why that might be and how that will change when pharmacists are forced to work faster under the pressure of punishment by lost revenue from having to distribute free "dinner and a movie".
I also beg you to consider how the attitudes of customers will change when they begin to look at HEALTH CARE in the same way they look at a Big Mac...although as far as I know, no one has ever been killed from a Big Mac where the special sauce was incorrectly applied. Is this really the image that you want your pharmacies to portray? One that values speed above all else? Have you ever worked in a pharmacy? Was a pharmacist involved in making this horrid decision? Is Ms. Snider a pharmacist herself? The advent of the $4 prescription has caused enough damage to the image of pharmacy by devaluing our work in the public mind. How would you feel going to a doctor that charged you $4 for a visit and guaranteed they could see you, review your health history and medication list, diagnose up to three conditions and send you out the door in 19 minutes or less? Would you feel safe? Would you feel that this is a doctor to be respected and that their work is valuable?
It is difficult enough to work in a field where you are punished for decisions of doctors, state laws, insurance companies and the pharmaceutical companies and now this additional pressure is added? Do you not want your "patients" (I use that term loosely since clearly they are not valued by your company as patients) to peruse your store while waiting, therefore making additional purchases?
I do expect a personal response to this email as this policy personally offends me as a health care professional. If you are not the correct person to contact regarding this utterly asinine policy, I would like the name of the person with whom I should talk. It is high time pharmacists stopped letting corporate insanity dictate their work environment and jeopardize the safety of the people they have taken an oath to protect. It is people like your company, Ms. Rockwell, that have made me more than happy to leave retail pharmacy. I do not need to waste my nine years of college, my year of residency, and my doctorate on an industry that does not respect my knowledge and training.
I sincerely hope you consider what a disservice your company has done to its employees and its customers. And I sincerely hope that you don't have to find out the hard way what can happen when pharmacy staff are overworked and overstressed. And I pray you and your family receive their medical care from a pharmacy that values their health above all else lest an overworked, overly stressed pharmacist incorrectly fill your prescription."
19 minutes! CVS only gives us 15 minutes. We have a wait time calculator in the computer. If someone drops off 99 scripts, the computer says it will be a 15 minute wait! I think if it's 3 or less, we are suppose to say 10 minutes, but it all depends on how busy we are.
A pharmacist I was talking to believes that this and drive thrus have ruined the profession. People are trying to get Plan B at the drive thru!
Sorry about the ranting and popping in drive thrus.
The only solution is for Pharmacists to band together and refuse to work for places like this. When they can't hire any one but H1B visa holders and thier business goes to crap they will change there tune.
This reminds me of the old article i once read from a blog: In summary, the NV senator said that pharmacists can go sell shoes if they don't fill prescriptions from the doctors.
http://lonelymans.blogspot.com/2007/02/nv-senator-says-pharmacists-role-akin.html


Yeah, I figured as I was typing that that it had to be up there somewhere and I was missing it.Eh... re-read haha. It's been proposed multiple times.

Yeah, I figured as I was typing that that it had to be up there somewhere and I was missing it.![]()
Sounds like a typical PR response, BUT I should add that it seems to be nicely done.
They should just hand out those vibrating pagers like at Cheesecake Factory that buzz when your Rx is done.