Posted on 11/04/2023 12:58:35 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Thousands of pharmacists are walking out on their jobs this week in protest of working conditions. The pharmacists have focused their ire on CVS and Walgreens — mega-chains that are being highly criticized for their working conditions.
The protests started a few weeks ago and have grown to a major action this week.
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I support the pharmacists 100%
Their working conditions are horrendous and the extreme time mamagement fosters errors that are dangerous to the public.
I could never understand wanting to be a pharmacist. It’s a five year degree, when you graduate you’re almost a doctor and the best job you can get is as a highly educated clerk
Well, looks like my pharmacy is about to get busier... We already have people leaving Walgreens for us, so now we’re going to face more medication shortages. Awesome.
I recall our local grocery store had a pharmacy, in store.
The pharmacists stayed busy, but, never harried, like I’ve seen at the few Walgreens or CVS, or ANY current day pharmacy, I’ve been.
I guess BigPharma and BigMedicine have developed too many new drugs ($hots…cough, cough) with too many side effects requiring MORE drugs…for today’s pharmacists to keep up with.
🤔
Walgreens sucks. I hope they go completely bankrupt.
Is it really like road work in the dead of winter or working in a coal mine?
I’ve never seen a pharmacy that had terrible working conditions. That’s not to say it looks like an excruciatingly boring job.
Any pharmacist that walks out on his paid responsibilities to provide essential medications to individuals (who’ve already paid through their insurance) should be immediately fired.
The drugstores get paid set “agreed to”amounts by insurance or health maintenance orgs.The pharmacists are squeezed between what the chain gets for their services, the drug companies pricing schemes and the chains desire for profits. So they have to produce more drug prescriptions per hour. Hence, working conditions become intolerable because a careful pharmacist cannot work as fast as is profitable for the chain.
The chains will automate further, less pharmacist will be employed and more technicians will do much of the labor..they will probably allow more techs to work with pharmacists. All adds up to more errors and oversight and personnel issues. Bidenflation makes it worse. Good luck to the overburdened pharmacists.
That’s not to say it doesn’t look like…
its not the companies fault that people never came back to work after the chinese virus shutdown
i agree
Most everyone is getting squeezed, what makes them the exception?
Hope it gets worked out.
I use Walgreens in Memphis, and Detroit. Always fast, and friendly service.
Think I’ll walk down there now, and check it out.
We have a relative who was a pharmacist (”was” is a spoiler alert... :-) ).
She got high on her own supply—got suspended in two different states and then banned for life.
Apparently those pharmacy video cameras actually work!
Why was she a pharmacist?
Because that is where the drugs were.
;-)
Except if they make one big mistake...something very untoward can happen. You wouldn’t want a lawyer, dentist, doctor, counselor. taxi driver, barber , etc to be working double time...too many errors and bad outcomes. If you knew all the checks the pharmacist has to do before dispensing a medication you would understand. It looks like taking one tablet or capsule into a different container with a name on it...but it is much deeper and the patients well being is at stake.
Talk to grumpy sick people all day. Get exposed to every cold and flu running around. And have to stand on your feet. Not road work to be sure. But not 5 years of college work either.
“Any pharmacist that walks out on his paid responsibilities to provide essential medications to individuals (who’ve already paid through their insurance) should be immediately fired.”
So by that same logic any pharmacist who refuses to dispense abortifacients (before they were available over the counter) should be fired?
Also, ever heard of professional judgement?
It sounds like you think pharmacists should be your personal slave.
This is why I bank meds when possible.
” It’s a five year degree, when you graduate you’re almost a doctor...”
Um, graduating pharmacists within the last 10ish+ years are all PharmD’s (Doctor of Pharmacy).
“This is why I bank meds when possible.”
Everyone should do this.
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