What sounds like an April Fool’s Joke but is absolutely true about your job? I’ll start. Today I will eat lunch standing up in 15 minutes, if I’m lucky.
If every pharmacy paid the exact same to get medications and were reimbursed exactly the same, and people could choose where they want to go....how long would it take CVS and Walgreens to go out of business?
Just your regular reminder that community pharmacy is part of primary care. As are dentistry and optometry. Oh and whilst we’re at it all community pharmacists are clinical pharmacists. 😁
What it’s like in Retail Pharmacy Example #1:
Imagine sending your husband to Taco Bell without telling him what you want. Then later you call the restaurant livid because he brought home the wrong shit.
@lantuslostmpire@WafflesPharm Yes! And she was like “oh I didn’t know! But you can just do it like this.”
I was also in pharmacy school so I didn’t really know what to do. I gave her the shot and then turned around to give her privacy to get dressed.
I am extremely skeptical of the ability of public messaging to disaggregate "the J&J vaccine is under review as a precaution" from "the J&J vaccine is not safe and the others may not be either" in the minds of normal people. An incredibly crucial, high-stakes test for the press.