Walmart Wrongly Fired Pharmacist with MS Over Vaccinations

[mentos]

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Nah, but I consider it outside of the normal duties of a pharmacist.

Our Associations are packed with *****s that beg for things like immunization privileges, with no idea how to actually male it work for the profession

No one's stopping you from opening your own pharmacy and paying the pharmacist for each immunization.

 

[CetiAlphaFive]

No one's stopping you from opening your own pharmacy and paying the pharmacist for each immunization.

I wrote the immunization protocol for my pharmacy and I receive profit sharing.
Anymore trite remarks that I can dunk on?

EDIT:
Let me also point out how ridiculous your original post was.
1st, you didn't read the post.
2nd you're defending a problem within a profession.

Please try to think about your posts more before putting your fingers on the keyboard.

 

[beautifulrobot]

Nah, but I consider it outside of the normal duties of a pharmacist.

Our Associations are packed with *****s that beg for things like immunization privileges, with no idea how to actually male it work for the profession

*****s or corporate shills? Probably a mix of both...

 

[sozetone]

This lady was licensed in 1977, before pharmacists could even give vaccines. She may have picked this profession because there were no physical coordination requirements. So she isn’t allowed to be a pharmacist anymore because a massive company wants to make a few extra dollars on flu shots or make an inconvenient schedule?

To be an essential function the job has to exist to perform that function, and no community pharmacist position exists to give vaccines. They are there to verify prescriptions, and to give vaccines as a minor add-on.

There isn’t even a public health argument here either since there are several other pharmacies in the area and schedules could have been changed.

It really makes no difference , if you are able to give flu shots and dont get enough, they will ding you on your performance evaluation. Possibly causing you to have a poor one. From then on out, you are pretty much done. OR option #2 - claim an allergy and advise you cannot give flu shots. Then they cut your hours, make you float, and use you as little as possible until you choke. This flu shot thing and other vaccines is a BILLION dollar industry headed by Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi, Glaxo Smithkline, and many more. You cant win this battle. I'm even starting to think the CDC is in bed with big business and big pharma? seems like every "recommendation" or "guideline" they create or update makes these big businesses MORE money....look at the angles sometime. hey, maybe im paranoid.

 

[Xenophylia]

I always thought the pharmacist should get paid a fee (to the RPh, not their greedy employer) for completing mtm. Probably would get much higher completion rates if they did. The current model gives no real motivation to do it, other than the threat of being fired if you don't (which seems these days to be the modus operandi of most employers these days)

 

[Xenophylia]

I know someone who got a medical exception when we were first required to immunize that claimed she had a "phobia" of needles. No idea whether that was even true but her Dr. wrote her a letter which she sent to HR. After that, she had a target on her back and they eventually got rid of her because of other issues....

 

[BidingMyTime]

Genuinely asking (though I'm 99% sure I know the answer) because there would be some sense in it. I bet there would be much less complaining about being too busy or having high numbers of prescriptions filled per day if you were.

At this point in time, pretty much no. At one time, retail chains would give bonuses based on the volume of the pharmacy, so pharmacists were rewarded for filling more scripts. I think most chains have done away with bonuses though.

 

[CetiAlphaFive]

It really makes no difference , if you are able to give flu shots and dont get enough, they will ding you on your performance evaluation. Possibly causing you to have a poor one. From then on out, you are pretty much done. OR option #2 - claim an allergy and advise you cannot give flu shots. Then they cut your hours, make you float, and use you as little as possible until you choke. This flu shot thing and other vaccines is a BILLION dollar industry headed by Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi, Glaxo Smithkline, and many more. You cant win this battle. I'm even starting to think the CDC is in bed with big business and big pharma? seems like every "recommendation" or "guideline" they create or update makes these big businesses MORE money....look at the angles sometime. hey, maybe im paranoid.

Or maybe you just can't use brain 2 think too good.

What big pharma conspiracy is causing pharmacies to fire people over poor customer service or loyalty card metrics?

 

[projektreverb]

At this point in time, pretty much no. At one time, retail chains would give bonuses based on the volume of the pharmacy, so pharmacists were rewarded for filling more scripts. I think most chains have done away with bonuses though.

Bonus? What’s that?