Re: Outlook for Pharmacy (was "Message for Carol")

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I don't think i have a problem with
online pharmacys, as i do with who
is behind them. Put a trusted brand
name store online, i'd have no
problem. It's the hole in the wall
plain brown wraper stores with no
return address that gives me the
creeps. The one that will sell to
people who write their own script.

On 5/12/06, Carol wrote:
> On 5/11/06, v wrote:
>>
>> I'm not so sure that online
Pharmacys are a good idea. I kow
that
>> in my neck of the woods here in
Jersey, a Pharmacolgist has to
> have
>> a degree ... has to know what
drugs do to paitents. If they react
>> with other drugs etc.. They hold
peoples lives in their hands. I
>> know they have to be licensed and
know more than a doctor when it
>> comes to drugs. If that's the way
it goes, then we better start
>> building more rehab centers,
cause that's how easy my son got
> hooked
>> on Oxicton. No problem getting
them onlne. A bigger problem
> keeping
>> him in enrolled in our metadone
clinic.
>>
> I'm not a big fan of the on-line
pharmacy either way too much margin
> for error and abuse. My former
HMO required that I get any
> presrciptions from a mail order
pharmacy which I really hated--I
> wanted to use my neighborhood
pharmacist that i'd known for years
> who knew me, my medical history,
my kids, etc. A pharmacist is a
> very important job and very
demanding because of all the
different
> drugs out there now and the
possiblities for problems. It takes
5
> years to become a pharmacist, 1-2
years of college and then 3-4
> years of pharmacy school. (A
pharmacologist though is not the
same
> as a pharmacist, just for the
record.)