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| Topic | Pharmacists say industry in crisis puts patient safety at risk |
| hockeybub89 07/09/21 1:49:53 AM #4: | Pharmacists verify all prescriptions for issues, take verbal orders from doctors, provide consultation and advice to patients, fill all prescriptions for CII substances, do most immunizations, and manage the overall operation of the pharmacy. One big thing the first article mentions is quotas. They are the bane of everyone's existence at a pharmacy. The companies base everything (hours, raises, budget, etc) off hitting these numbers, many of which rely on annoying the hell out of patients with phone calls. At CVS, they've rolled out a new verification system specifically because they want the technicians to focus solely on counting prescriptions, so the pharmacist can do literally everything else at once and only look at pictures of what the technicians did. The stress is crushing pharmacists and technicians alike, and increasing both wait times and mistakes. The system is planned down to the second and a single hiccup of any sort will throw everything into disarray, possibly for days. This is the pressure the people handling your drugs are under --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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