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Well to respond to that would mean moving this thread to the pbm thread.
Maybe I'm on my own here but I don't think things would be like they are if it wasn't for reimbursement rates.
What Parasite made me realize
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Well to respond to that would mean moving this thread to the pbm thread.
Maybe I'm on my own here but I don't think things would be like they are if it wasn't for reimbursement rates.
Well if you see my username and make a presupposition (regardless of whether it's true or not) then it's just perception bias.
And I disagree about living in negativity. I think anyone who contributes regularly on this sub does it for one of three reasons:
1) Blogging/posting on social platforms is their passion (or their job)
2) They are looking for advice about something
3) They are looking for an outlet to express their opinions. It's the modern form of journaling or keeping a diary.
#3 probably describes me. I only follow/post on these platforms because I have downtime at work. If the pharmacy profession isn't so depressing then my thoughts expressed probably wouldn't be so depressing/cynical. But so long as I am in the profession of pharmacy I feel it is a duty to keep up with what's going on in the field with venues such as SDN. Once I stop working in pharmacy I could care less about this sub.
Can you provide an example of expanding the role of techs?
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I think he means techs doing immunizations and tech check tech.
PTCB is developing 5 certificates for "Advanced Practice Technicians" which encapsulates several ways technicians will undermine the role of pharmacists in the future:
1. Technician Product Verification (Tech-Check-Tech) - why pay pharmacists do verify meds when you can have techs do it? Let's face it, there isn't a lot of clinical judgement that goes into order verification most of the time anyways.
2. Medication History - "MTM" is an overglorified term for "taking a medication history" which any lay person can do.
3/4. Controlled Substance Diversion Prevention and Hazardous Drug Management - Not exactly sure what these are but I'm guessing that it will displace "Medication safety" pharmacists from their roles eventually.
5. Billing and Reimbursement - Why hire pharmacists to do PA's when you can train a tech to do the same thing? After all, most of your time is probably spent being put on hold by insurance anyways.
And immunizations too.
Basically what you are saying is pharmacists are overeducated techs.
Which goes back to my other thread issue, the college thread where the government destroyed our country by allowing students to take out loans.
Plus every profession needing a degree.
Uh read that again
PTCB developing certificates for techs is about as meaningful as PTCB certificates are for pharmacists. It is 100% about making money for PTCB and 0% expanding anyone’s scope.
Using that logic we could say that pharmacists are expanding their scope by creating PGY3 residencies. The future must be bright indeed!
The truth is bad enough, it doesn’t need embellishment.
Using that logic we could say that pharmacists are expanding their scope by creating PGY3 residencies. The future must be bright indeed!
The truth is bad enough, it doesn’t need embellishment.
Yeah I was responding to owlegrad since I didn't include immunizations in my original response
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Agree. They are financial illiterate and have zero risk tolerance. But they still want to make money.
Can we talk about the movie and not pharmacy?
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think this needs to happen across the board. If pharmacist pay decreases, less people will consider pharmacy school because that "easy, six figure job" is no longer worth the loan burden. Class sizes decrease while **** tier schools close altogether. Older pharmacists will finally retire as the demands of the job is no longer worth it. Hopefully, money saved from pharmacist salary cuts will go to hours or techs and not upper management. Supply needs to correct before the profession can move forward.
I watched Parasite tonight. I worked up the energy to read the subtitles... I gotta say - I just don’t see your analogy.
Weird movie that was funny at some parts. But I don’t understand the hype around it.
Weird movie that was funny at some parts. But I don’t understand the hype around it.
