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Has anyone but myself noticed how pharmacy has turned into a profession of nothing but fighting?

Going along with my previous (and popular) socialized medicine post, I have a solution from the pharmacy aspect that I thought of while reading some responses to it.

Here I will give my thoughts and viewpoint on the current push to give people socialized medicine in the US.

Every pharmacist has had to deal with Workman’s Compensation prescriptions at some point in their careers.

A pharmacy without crackheads would be like a Big-Mac without the secret sauce.

ePrescribing is the stupidest thing to come to pharmacy to date.

Summer is upon us, and with it comes such delightful things.

This one is going to be a doozy, so please read the entire post before writing me a 10 page comment about your life story and how much of an asshole I am.

According to the scientific trends that every pharmacist sees every day in a retail settings, the future of humanity will possess 3 major characteristics:

Many of you have emailed me asking why I have been so quiet the past month or so.

So obviously more than one of you have noticed that I’ve been quite silent lately.

Dear Staff of Doctors Offices Everywhere,

I don’t mind if a patient calls up and has a question (except if its when their vicodin is due).

Unless you live in a box, you all are well aware that we are in a nationwide Metoprolol Succinate (Toprol XL) shortage.

This entry is dedicated to all of the PA’s and NP’s out there who use a hand-held device (palm pilot, iphone, whatever) to dose medications.

DTC Advertising – Direct to Consumer Advertising.

Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Plavix reps are on the top of my drug-rep shit list.

Every retail pharmacist in every pharmacy around the world have dealt with this issue.

As part of my “Dedication to Pharmacy”, I am going to create some patient handouts that you can give to your patients to explain things that you don’t want/have to.

I really hate doing clue-bat entries, but from some of the comment/emails I have received regarding my previous post about tobacco sales in pharmacies some/most of you ‘don’t get it’.

Most (if not all) of you have heard in the news about banning the sales of Tobacco products in pharmacies.

I’m sure this post is full of grammar and spelling mistakes.

Once in a while I get a rather bitter comment from a “Pharmacist” who just got his shiny new degree and license and thinks he knows it all.

So I haven’t poked fun at The Angriest Pharmacist in a while.

See, not only does the pharmacy piss me off, but computers piss me off as well.

I had a run-in with an intern that just made my blood boil.

No no, I’m not going to give our dear friend Ken a good beat-down like some of you have been hoping.

I hate the holidays.

I really get angry when I see a DAW-1 on a prescription.

Stupid drugs piss off pharmacists, its a known fact.

I hate this time of the year.

Alright boys and girls.

Lets face it, pharmacists are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to new prescriptions.

Before I go into a tirade about the population with a chronic Vicodin deficiency, I’ll do some preemptive damage control here.

Its pretty bad when I have a post-it (Upsher-Smith Klor-Con no less) with all the website fodder I think of during the day.

I know I haven’t been posting lately compared to my DrugMonkey and Angriest counterparts.

Pharmacy school students live in a delusional world of pharmacyland.

Is there some sort of paint you can line pharmacies with that will block cell phone reception?

I support the stereotypical platonic family.

Although they sure as hell don’t realize it, PBM’s (like ScamImp-.

Today we have another episode of Ask The Angry Pharmacist, where our very own TAP answers YOUR questions about life, pharmacy, drugs, and why that soma is too early to be filled!

Retail pharmacy (or working with the public) demands one huge element that most students lack.

Over the last 200+ entries, I have fought for truth, justice and AWP -5% + $6.

Welcome to another installment of Ask The Angry Pharmacist, where the most famous pharmacist on the planet (heh) answers YOUR questions and concerns in a not-so-nice (usually) way!

If anyone would come up to me while I’m filling Rx’s and say “Boy, you look like you’re hard at work” I would just give a casual smile and continue along.

Out of your options for refusing to help with the current (non)

As you have read before, California instated a 10% cut for its Medicaid Rx reimbursement.

Never fails.

Yesterday the California Medicaid system (Medi-Cal) cut reimbursements by 10% across the boards for Doctors, Dentists and Pharmacies.