I regretfully envision a future where twenty or so pharmacists are cobbled together in some strip mall office space. The days of us being the most accessible healthcare professionals, those comforting knowledgeable faces behind the bench are long gone. Headsets and iPads are now our only connection with patients - if we can still in good conscious call them that. Walgreens and CVS have led the lobby to pass a series of legislation that has all but removed pharmacists from the prescription filling process. Burnt out technicians, with turnover rates akin to that of McDonald’s employees, are now tasked with everything. Tech-Check-Tech, immunizations, controlled substance stewardship, etc. - our only role left is to counsel. Well, not exactly. At the point of sale we flash to life on a customer facing iPad. On our end we see the name of the drug being dispensed and begin reading verbatim the language corporate has determined to be best to help them mitigate any liability for Walgreens or CVS. Those twenty pharmacists repeat the prepared counselings 1000s of times per shift and are responsible for 200 locations. I know this sounds terrible but don’t even think about complaining. Thanks to this new business model the unemployment rate for pharmacists is the highest in modern recorded history and the chains are more powerful than ever. God I hope I’m wrong…
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District Human Resource Leader
2moWhat an amazing day! The facility team brought that energy!! We are thankful to the facility team and the hard work they do everyday to keep us going.