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

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On 5/12/06, L wrote:
> On 5/11/06, Mr. Blue wrote:
>> On 5/10/06, L wrote:
>>
> I don't
>> see any reason why this work couldn't be done in Mexico nor
> even
>> in China, at least for medications that are not needed
> immediately.
>>
>> That's my concern about making a large investment of time and
>> money in Pharmacy.
I know the thread has since taken a different tack, but I have to
respond to this statement: the requirements for pharmacists to
fill Rxs are not present in these 3rd world countries. You have a
guy who can't speak English pulling a bottle off a shelf and
filling your bottle up with what he thinks he's reading. It makes
me almost faint to even think about it. Pharmacists here have to
be up on all the drugs, all the side effects, all the different
drug interactions. All the guy/gal/child in China or Mexico has
to do is be willing to show up, work for slave wages 18 hours a
day. And you want someone like that sending you something that
you life may depend on? many drugs sound very similar but are
completely different in their use and effect. Drug errors occur
all the time in hospitals where the nurses and pharmacists are
trained, skilled, and knowlegable about dose ranges and effects.
But accidents happen. If the guy filling the prescription doesn't
have any idea what he's doing, what safeguards do we have?
Of course your argument makes sense from a capitalistic economic
standpoint but not from a medical or human standpoint. I want my
pharmacist to be the one who knows me, who called me when
something was prescribed over the phone that he questioned
because he knew me. Turned out the PA had read the order wrong
when she phoned in the Rx.