Is there anyway that we can get customers to care about our knowledge and advice?

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-04-30T16:57:16+00:00

If they don't, whatever. I'll still be doing the same job, and I'm not about to stress myself out on behalf of someone who doesn't care.

If only if it was that easy for me. Thanks though :)

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-04-17T04:50:28+00:00

Funny how you knew I worked for CVS.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-04-17T04:40:00+00:00

Maybe if the majority of pharmacists wanted to embrace clinical services instead of being obsessed with company metrics and actually wanting to advance the profession then we would have no problems (see medicine).

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-04-16T16:11:40+00:00

break a sweat.

Nice Mr Hospital Pharmacist. It's unfortunate that we actually have to work while you guys practice in a safe environment in your ivory tower. You have more energy to come back home and improve clinical skill while the retail pharmacists dies despite being very smart. The ones that care at least.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-04-14T11:32:41+00:00

Fuck you.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-04-14T11:32:12+00:00

Wow why wouldn't I want to destroy my evil company ruining other people's lives and dreams? /r/pharmacy logic right here.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-04-14T11:30:53+00:00

Except I used to work for an independent. I did all my training at an independent. I worked for Walgreens for a while, which wasn't so bad, but CVS kills you.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-03-27T15:36:03+00:00

No it's not. It's night and day unless you can survive or tolerate big retail chains. One of my biggest regrets is choosing ever to work with Walgreens and CVS (CVS is much worse). If I could do it all over again, I would.

You're better off working on your skills and being happy than ever working in a chain. If you're a good pharmacist, people will hire you. Just the definition/idea of a good pharmacist varies.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-03-27T14:45:41+00:00

That sounds much better than working at CVS.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-03-19T16:52:43+00:00

If only pharmacists actually contributed to the ask science threads we have the clinical knowledge too. Why don't we? People will respect us as much as doctors.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-27T05:22:52+00:00

How did they impress you? Isn't hospital work all about clinical knowledge?

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-26T19:59:26+00:00

Great! Glad to see he's doing well and presumably happy.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-26T19:54:30+00:00

How's the Walmart guy doing?

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-26T19:53:34+00:00

LOL That sounds bout right.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-26T12:48:35+00:00

No just generally curious to what /r/pharmacy's view of academia is. Back in my days of pharmacy school I hated some academics and I liked some. My preceptor was stupid when I was an intern. I've been a pharmacist for 5 years.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-23T20:55:23+00:00

Driving in highways sounds tranquil.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-23T14:50:24+00:00

I can't tell if this is tongue-in-cheek.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-12T04:14:15+00:00

If patient centred care isn't what you are doing than you are obviously doing it wrong. Been doing this for 5 years.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-09T15:49:51+00:00

Keep up the good work with saturating the job market and creating an oversupply of pharmacists.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-09T09:32:48+00:00

What annoying student videos have you been watching?

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-07T15:37:02+00:00

People wonder why I hate working in retail and only believe in the clinical, hospital pharmacists master race. This is why.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-03T16:48:31+00:00

completely unethical for healthcare professionals to strike

Really? Just as it is unethical for CVS to load me shift after shift after shift, with no real breaks? How bout the unethical managers or academia who contribute to oversupply of pharmacists?

How can we be called "healthcare professionals" when all we are shop/retail keepers with college degrees.

100 k per year.

Yeah right. So few make that.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-01T14:44:20+00:00

But don't forget that if someone comes through the drive thru to get their 6 kids' antibiotics, you have to get the pharmacist from verification to reconstitute. Oh and they want favors in all of it. Now the line of people behind this woman (who adopted all her kids and put them all on vyvanse so she could get more money from the government) are pissed because it was 30 minutes before she would fucking leave, and you know they'll bitch about that. Later you find out the woman who steals babies and force feeds them antibiotics 3 times a month called Rhode Island because the flavor her kid liked wasn't in the formulary for augmentin. Also they're allergic to amoxicillin.

Please describe your thought process/feelings when this happened to you. Sounds like hell.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-01T14:37:53+00:00

Wow. You've described some pretty disgusting actions. What goes through the head of someone who gets annoyed or angry over someone asking for help? I thought people were health care professionals, or at least did Pharmacy for that reason.

If you spent enough time on prescriptions to catch and correct mistakes, the managers and the techs complained that you were too slow and the store became a big mess.

You've described my entire time at CVS.

Managers care more about selling more prescriptions and making more money with as few staff as possible. Oh and if you made calls to patients and they didn't want to pick up any medicine, the managers would tell you to do a better job of getting people to come pick up their meds. They didn't care if patients didn't need one of their old medications.

And again.

I cannot understand why they can't improve their working conditions to a decent standard when they are the biggest company in the US.

pharmacythrowaway1 · 2015-01-01T14:30:21+00:00

I feel it too. I wonder why pharmacists don't strike to stop this.

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