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re: What exactly does a pharmacist do?

Posted on 3/7/22 at 3:40 pm to
Posted by PillPusher
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 3:40 pm to
I love these threads.
Posted by texn
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 3:44 pm to
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What exactly does a pharmacist do?


Gives me boner pills.

That's enough to justify their existence.
Posted by BoogalooCopperpot
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 3:49 pm to
Or a fun thing…
Posted by notiger1997
Metairie
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 3:54 pm to
All I know is that 99% of the posters here couldn’t pass the organic chemistry classes required.
Posted by Bama Bird
Pittsburgh, PA
Member since Mar 2013
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 3:55 pm to
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Not sure why but I thought pharmacies systems are basically linked or connected so that you can’t pharmacy hop say for narcotics.



Controlled substances are on PDMP and pharmacists are required to check before dispensing CS's. As far as I'm aware there isn't a portal of any sort for non-CS meds
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 4:15 pm to
When I was a teenager I lived down the street from a family whose dad was a pharmacist. He owned a small drug store.

Long story short, evidently he got into some trouble in the past and was not able to practice for a certain period of time. Then when I was a teenager, he got busted filling scripts that was being sold on the street.

He got arrested and then bailed out of jail. The next day he took a mixture of drugs that put him in the hospital for a little while and left him permanently disabled. Evidently he tried to commit suicide, but people said that he he knew exactly what he was doing. He took something he knew would leave him in some state of disability, claim he tried to kill himself, etc.. But whatever he did worked, he never went to prison, never had a trial, etc.

This does not answer your question, but your question reminded me of that story.
Posted by Sun God
Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 4:18 pm to
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OweO

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This does not answer your question


Posted by tokenBoiler
Lafayette, Indiana
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 4:47 pm to
In grad school, I used to party with some pharmacy students. I don't think they went into pharmacy to learn how to give drugs to other people; that was just a bonus, if you know what I mean.
Posted by madmaxvol
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 4:52 pm to
Compounding Pharmacists actually blend.
Posted by Cracker
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 4:57 pm to
Count to 30 by 5s get addicted to pain killers and adderall and complain they are over worked
Tell me where I am wrong
Posted by OldCat55
Member since Apr 2021
751 posts
Posted on 3/7/22 at 5:03 pm to
Y’all are missing one of the biggest things they do: fight with insurance companies to try to get the prescribed drug covered.

Drug interactions and catching doctor’s mistakes are huge parts of the job.

Doctor, whom I believed, made me very sick by prescribing a dosage that would take down a bull elephant.

Wife, pharmacist whom I did not believe, caught it, advised me not to take it but filled it anyway after doctor’s office confirmation.

Me, dumbazz, took inappropriate dosage and felt like hell.

On the 3rd callback, the doctor’s office admitted the dosage was wrong after the nurse quit reading the chart and actually asked the doctor.

Living with a wife that was that RIGHT while I was that WRONG, was a degree of hell experience.
Posted by OldCat55
Member since Apr 2021
751 posts
Posted on 3/7/22 at 5:06 pm to
Wife not addicted to pain killers. She is over worked but never says so. She owns her pharmacy.

You seem to be dumb.
Posted by Swazla
Member since Jul 2016
1911 posts
Posted on 3/7/22 at 5:15 pm to
Please don't be a pharmacist except in DC. OK?
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
79766 posts
Posted on 3/7/22 at 5:38 pm to
quote:

When I was a teenager I lived down the street from a family whose dad was a pharmacist. He owned a small drug store.

Long story short, evidently he got into some trouble in the past and was not able to practice for a certain period of time. Then when I was a teenager, he got busted filling scripts that was being sold on the street.

He got arrested and then bailed out of jail. The next day he took a mixture of drugs that put him in the hospital for a little while and left him permanently disabled. Evidently he tried to commit suicide, but people said that he he knew exactly what he was doing. He took something he knew would leave him in some state of disability, claim he tried to kill himself, etc.. But whatever he did worked, he never went to prison, never had a trial, etc.

This does not answer your question, but your question reminded me of that story

quote:

Long story short
Lie!
Posted by Cracker
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Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 6:10 pm to
Ask the board of pharmacy in every state I am correct and your wife made the choice she can walk away anytime and you can STFU
Posted by OldCat55
Member since Apr 2021
751 posts
Posted on 3/7/22 at 6:47 pm to
So, let me see if I can follow your logic. Check with every board of pharmacy to find out that pharmacists do more than count by 5s and become addicts OR is that what they’re supposed to tell me all their board certified pharmacists do.

You made a ‘look at me, I’m cute’ joke post and got called out.

Don’t be a bitch. Lighten up. I didn’t say you were dumb. Don’t prove it.

My wife loves her job and makes bank. I said she was overworked. Why would she walk away?
This post was edited on 3/7/22 at 6:49 pm
Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 3/7/22 at 8:19 pm to
I left pharmacy I long time ago to go to law school. Best decision I ever made
Posted by OldCat55
Member since Apr 2021
751 posts
Posted on 3/7/22 at 8:32 pm to
I thought I wanted to be a lawyer at one time. I absolutely hated law school with a passion. After my first year, I never went back.

Pharmacy never entered my mind. It takes a certain kind of person to do the 10-12 hour days in such a small confined area. It would drive me nuts. My wife loves it though.
Posted by Ba Ba Boooey
Northshore
Member since May 2010
4729 posts
Posted on 3/7/22 at 8:53 pm to
I counsel patients/physicians on drug interactions, answer another 100 plus questions every day on the phone from non patients about their drugs and medical issues because they can’t get their chain pharmacies to answer the phone. I compound hormone replacement therapies and other non sterile formulations. I vaccinate patients. I spend way too much of my life on the phone with insurance companies.

As to your most complex question, I would say talking down a worthless piece of shite from shooting up my former pharmacy because we wouldn’t fill his bullshite “prescriptions” from a now incarcerated doctor of 120 oxycodone 30s, 90 soma and 90 Xanax 2s.

I often have the same question about attorneys…
Posted by Ba Ba Boooey
Northshore
Member since May 2010
4729 posts
Posted on 3/7/22 at 9:01 pm to
We put all of our controls on an eyecon machine that verifies the count and takes a picture that is stored to our computers. I have no doubt that diversion happens at pharmacies but if you think it’s happening to you, change to an independent local pharmacy instead of the chains.
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