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PILLGRRLL wrote:

Again STUPID...you have not idea what you are talking about and I will leave it at that.
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Yea let him ramble to himself it's called drunk/drugged & plain dumbass posting/texting from a very clueless OxyContin Oxymoron that wouldn't last 2 seconds @ that job!
You people the techs & pharmacists put up w/alot of s//t esp the open 24 HR ones!! Been there & done that & it's stressful as hell!!

Very good point about pharmacists catching doctors' mistakes. It is such a large part of the pharmacist's job that goes virtually unknown and unappreciated by the public. The long running joke of doctors' illegible scribble on prescriptions is really a serious problem; this is just one part of a larger problem with the rushed, inattentive, and careless attitudes seen in many doctors offices that are actually responsible for many prescription mistakes. Many patients disregard a pharmacist's professional opinion regarding their medications, saying "Doctor knows best". But while the doctor has his medical specialty, the pharmacist is an expert on medications and how they work; in regards to medication I will trust a pharmacist's opinion over a doctor's any day.

Fink wrote:

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The truth hurts doesn't it?
Oh I forgot another critical role the pharmacist plays. I have to ask the pharmacist for my OTC cold medicine because a few kids mashed it up and snorted it. Way to step up and be a hero pharmacists.

That's the FDA regulations b/c of the stupid ass fertilizer stealing sudafed acid mixing crystal meth labs which you're just pissed off.. so piss off! Go OD or it sound/seems like you would be the cause of someone elses death!

Fink wrote:

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Independent pharmacies are going the way of the dodo bird. The big chains can offer $4 scripts because they can raise the price on a head of lettuce. It's not coming back to bite them they are doing just fine and enjoying all the new business. And who really gained from that? The consumers...$4 scripts are awesome.
Hell pretty soon we'll all be ordering our scripts on the web and they will be filled and shipped from India. Don't worry PILLGRRLL you can work in the front of the Kroger as a cashier. Now scan my tomatoes.

I'm guessing 1) you have no formal education. Or you were comatose through whatever education you happened to receive. 2) You have NO experience actually working in a pharmacy. Being a pissed off, entitled, ignorant, probably sexist, and absurdly obnoxious customer at a pharmacy does not count as having pharmacy work experience. "Now scan my tomatoes" What makes you think that you can saunter up to a counter at any place of business and get any sort of decent service with that abhorrent attitude? If you want a positive retail experience, try acting a like a mature adult and being a little more pleasant. While you are right about the independent pharmacies going the way of the dodo bird, you are absolutely wrong about pharmacies prospering from offering $4 prescriptions. It's great if only your pharmacy does it and has the competitive edge, but when everyone jumps on board then pharmacies have to absorb more and more cost of the product while not seeing any increase in revenue. These businesses in central Ohio are NOT doing well. At Kroger and other $4 pharmacy chains I know directly of drastically cut hours and several pharmacists having salaries cut or being laid off as a result of these corporate pricing policies. Pharmacists are professionals whose expertise and customer service, not $4 prices, bring patients back; is that how corporate offices should be treating them?

The information about how many prescriptions are filled in Ohio each year is wrong or at least misleading. OARRS is a reporting system for controlled medications only, so the 67 million prescription fills was most likely how many controlled prescriptions were filled. According to a state health statistics survey, the total number for 2008 was actually 140,337,093 prescriptions filled at retail pharmacies. To the reporter, please check your facts before submitting a story, especially one that potentially casts negative attention on thousands of central Ohio pharmacists.

Fink wrote:

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Rx Tech You're a complete dumb f**k. Does it take any school to be a Rx tech? I bet I could train a chipanzee to do it, and the chimp would scan my tomatoes too. You talking about $4 scripts shows you have NO business knowledge what-so-ever. The big chains know exactly what they're doing. Bring you in for your $4 script and nail you on your bag of Doritoes.

As a "dumb xxxx" pharmacy technician I'm very willing to bet I am considerably more educated than you are (guessing from your sophisticated language). Yes it does require school and certification to become a technician; your pharmacist started out as a pharmacy technician before becoming a licensed intern and finally a full pharmacist. But no, let's have chimpanzees tossing pills into a bottle with no regard to what other medications the patient is taking, their medical conditions, drug allergies, insurance limitations, etc. You still have yet to demonstrate why you feel you have superior expertise in both pharmacy work experience and corporate pharmacy business practices, so why are you even commenting here? Just a complete guess but I have a feeling you've got a nice angry-at-the-world loner complex and couldn't keep a job as a tech yourself without getting fired for your anger issues. You are a pathetic, angry, ignorant, and miserable individual with no real world understanding. Take your Doritos, go home, and scream at your Xbox instead of spouting your abusive language and ignorant nonsense on this forum.

I work for Kroger and people should really get the story straight before judging. If you knew the story you would know that the incident happened several months before the woman died so it really had nothing to do with her death.People need to stop being so sue crazy. If they just would have went to Kroger and said this happened and she went into the hospital because of it I'm sure Kroger would have been more than happy to pay for it. They can claim that it effected her potassium levels but that was corrected right away. I happen to know the pharmacist personally and think she is one of the best pharmacists I have ever worked with. Everyone makes mistakes even DOCTORS. I have seen many times where a doctor has given a child the wrong dosage which could kill them. WE ARE ALL HUMAN. Let GOD be the judge.

Krogergirl,
Let God be the judge? I'm not going to wait around for a fake man in the sky to judge me. I bet a pharmacist kills someone everyday in this country. Just because doctors makes mistakes that doesn't make mistakes okay.

Since pharmacists and techs are so f**king bright and so incredibly highly educated like RxTech claims, then how about they get the right medication in the right bottle ALL of the time.

I totally agree! People want their meds now! It doesn't matter if there are already 25-30 people ahead of them. If it's a maintenance medication, please allow for pick up later that day or the next. The other thing hard to under stand is they want the pharmacies to contact their doctors for them for refills. They need to pay attentention to their refills marked on the bottles snd contact the doctor ahead of time so they don't run out over a weekend or holiday. Some doctors want here from the people themselves.

The other distration is blaming the pharmacy staff if the insuance company doesn't cover something or only certain amount. The staff always try to resolve problems with insurance billings. Restrictions due to policy coverage varies. If you don't understand
call your insurance company to have them explain your coverage.

Fink wrote:

Krogergirl,
Let God be the judge? I'm not going to wait around for a fake man in the sky to judge me. I bet a pharmacist kills someone everyday in this country. Just because doctors makes mistakes that doesn't make mistakes okay.
Since pharmacists and techs are so **** bright and so incredibly highly educated like RxTech claims, then how about they get the
right medication in the right bottle ALL of the time.

GOD is a fake man to you no doubt! You have satanic all over you let me get the crucifix your heads probably spinning in a 360 every day! If anything you the fake!
BUT onto the subject of med. & pharmacys DOCs there isn't 1 pill out or 1 shrink out there that can even touch any of your major overall problems so yea I can see why your soo pissy mad! Sorry if I disturbed your wacky
hallucinations oops but how can 1 disturb the already dusturbed? GOD Bless!

Fink wrote:

Hey, stupid pharmacists...
When your only job is to the right kind of pill in the right pill jar, then don't screw it up. IT IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH!

Hey, Stupid Fink: Spend a day in a pharmacy and you'd realize (unless you're too stupid, and it's pretty obvious that you are) that you don't have the slightest damn idea what you're talking about. Go crawl back under your rock and don't slither back out until you have something worthy to add to the conversation.

Fink wrote:

Religious a-holes,
If I spent a day in a pharmacy then I would probably be able to witness a death caused by the phamacist. I made the comment that someone dies everyday from a pharmacy and I was so wrong. I apologize. Actually I did research and it turns out that 19+ people die EVERYDAY from a pharmacy f*** up in the US alone.
If there was a God based on goodness then why would he/she allow pharmacists to KILL 19 people everyday? I'd like to base my pharmacist choice on good education and attention to detail and not the faith of a fake man in the sky that likes to kill 19+ people per day.
The greatest thing is that if there is a heaven and hell...it's the stupid Bible thumpers that will end up in hell.

Then how about you getting a job in a pharmacy and fixing all the problems? Better yet, become a dr. and write legible scripts with correct dosages and directions. Oh, yeah, and by the way, maybe you could make sure that your idiot patients actually took their meds as directed.

Kroger pharmacists do a lot of multi-tasking. In addition to providing good reliable service and dispensing to the public the company distracts from such focus with an idiotic creation called "Key Retailing". It's really time to sunset this failed attempt of superflous quanitification and get back to business regardless of whose feelings are hurt. An unstocked meat case is one thing but dispensing errors result in serious harm.

RXer wrote:

Kroger pharmacists do a lot of multi-tasking. In addition to providing good reliable service and dispensing to the public the company distracts from such focus with an idiotic creation called "Key Retailing". It's really time to sunset this failed attempt of superflous quanitification and get back to business regardless of whose feelings are hurt. An unstocked meat case is one thing but dispensing errors result in serious harm.

Amen! And then there are the distractions of $4 generics (and constant transferring of scripts back and forth between pharmacies), drive-thrus, secondary-billing coupons from pharmaceuticals, helping customers find shampoo and other items in drug/gm, ELMS, 4 phone lines, customers dropping by to ask for free medical advice, customers arguing about their co-pays and wanting early refills on controls,etc., etc. Key Retailing is a joke. It doesn't do half of what it's supposed to do, and its cost is why you've lost a lot of tech hours and are working with less staff.

Helen wrote:

<quoted text> Amen! And then there are the distractions of $4 generics (and constant transferring of scripts back and forth between pharmacies), drive-thrus, secondary-billing coupons from pharmaceuticals, helping customers find shampoo and other items in drug/gm, ELMS, 4 phone lines, customers dropping by to ask for free medical advice, customers arguing about their co-pays and wanting early refills on controls,etc., etc. Key Retailing is a joke. It doesn't do half of what it's supposed to do, and its cost is why you've lost a lot of tech hours and are working with less staff.

Theres tons of multiple tasking then the pharmacist has to know what may interact W/others RXs that the patient is on/taking & a lot of DRs don't know that meaning med they perscribe patient. & whether it interferes if they're taking this or that med ETC.
To sum it up you pple actually trained tor know more about the meds than sum DRs!!
Last but not least the bombarded questions you get Exs,Will this cause diarrhea? Will my husband need to take this w/ milk?the commercial said it can cause?!?!so is that likely? The turnover is high & being short staffed is a nightmare! Hopefully pple will show respect to their pharmicists they need it!
Also the risk of robberies all the time!
Pple make mistakes esp in a intense enviroment! Not to mention helllo? pple die every second whether an accident or intentional whatever the fact of even walking out the door is a risk anymore! What gives?!
OK I said my peace,,& hope for some!

Fink wrote:

Hey, stupid pharmacists...
When your only job is to the right kind of pill in the right pill jar, then don't screw it up. IT IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH!

Hey! You try and get into pharmacy school and go through 8 years of schooling and then tell me it is just picking the right pill out of the jar. There is alot more behind a pharmacists job then just picking "the right kind of pill in the right pill jar". Oh how society amazes healthcare workers.

gumpper wrote:

I totally agree! People want their meds now! It doesn't matter if there are already 25-30 people ahead of them. If it's a maintenance medication, please allow for pick up later that day or the next. The other thing hard to under stand is they want the pharmacies to contact their doctors for them for refills. They need to pay attentention to their refills marked on the bottles snd contact the doctor ahead of time so they don't run out over a weekend or holiday. Some doctors want here from the people themselves.
The other distration is blaming the pharmacy staff if the insuance company doesn't cover something or only certain amount. The staff always try to resolve problems with insurance billings. Restrictions due to policy coverage varies. If you don't understand
call your insurance company to have them explain your coverage.

This is beyond true. Pts wait until the day they are out and expect refills in 1hr for pick-up. It's called:
A) take responsibility for your own healthcare
B) plan ahead

Pretty common sense for the normal human being.