Posted on 04/02/2005 7:26:51 AM PST by Sthitch
There's a vast medical complex under development all along the Indiana/Illinois border and it didn't come about because that's such a great place to find a doctor.
With the doctors drying up as targets for large dollar value liability targets, seems to me pharmacists must be next in line, and if so a symptom of their knowing what's coming would be a conscious decision on the part of many to eliminate involvement with any drugs with a relatively high risk value.
Law suits don't exist without fault. Negligence case against pharmacists are so rare as to be minimal. They no longer compound drug, they merely dispense drugs made into pills, and bottles of liquid. Their major fault has become the young women pharmacists just out of school who have not the slightest idea of how to relate to people or treat customers. Many of them think they're in the business of second guessing physicians.
"I think that's what you are getting at, the "false religion" thing? Right?"
No offense, but I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
"Thank you Dr. Mona. There are methods available to forestall that condition however. In fact, around here they are advertised on TV at dinnertime!"
Enlighten me. How does a woman with severe bleeding, the kind that leads to anemia and sends her to the hospital every few months for a cheerful little vacuuming procedure alleviate that with something they sell on tv? I'll be delighted to pass the info onto my coworker who was prescribed the pill for precisely that reason.
"I'm not sure that your challenge is relevant to Walmart."
The poster I was responding to used Walmart as an example. I continued that example. Pay attention.
Is this pill used for anything else. If not, then the drugstore should simply not carry it. Problem solved.
Unfortunately, almost every politician in Illinois is an idiot. More corruption per acre than even Floriduh.
A few do. It's often required for veterinary prescriptions, where the dosage is smaller than anything available in the "human" pills or capsules.
You're looking past the issue at a non sequitur......
Yes, but far fewer of them than are used at the corner drugstores. How long do you think it will take before only machines are used? I doubt it will take longer than a decade. All you need are machines that will verify a drug, machines that will count, and machines that will package. The whole thing is as automatizable as modern food processing.
Pharmacists use machines now. Most of the hand measuring occurs with materials that must be refrigerated or subject to other special handling.
Nice to hear that, but again, we're moving towards a system that doesn't depend on expensive people in white coats, who give the same explanations to people over and over. I suppose that meds needing special handling may always require some human intervention, but that's only because we haven't figured out the proper machine yet.
Oh, you've been talking to my family...
I'm sorry, I cannot reveal my sources.
Good for the Illinois. The job of deciding whether or not you should have a certain drug is up to your DOCTOR, not someone who has no knowledge of your medical file. If you have moral problems with doing your job, FIND ANOTHER JOB. It's pretty simple.
The pill has other uses, it basically helps regulate women's hormones. For the millions of women with endometriosis (sp?), it's something they need to have.
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