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To: cpdiii
cpdiii retired clinical pharmacist

Okay, do you keep in touch with pharmacists? What is going on with pharmacists these days? They seem to have gone mad with power.

To give a few examples:

A patient with treatment-resistant depression was prescribed a spray ketamine that was approved specifically for such a case by an anesthesiologist who treats depression. When the pharmacists saw the prescription he freaked out at the patient and screamed at him that it was a horse tranquilizer and he would never fill the prescription. It's patently false, because almost every emergency room in the country has it in stock. And this specific form was approved in the last five years to treat depression. Now the patient is scared to try anything for their depression.

A Walgreen's pharmacist recently screamed at a doctor I know over a prescription. She said the doctor did not have a medical license. [Not true - I've seen her license and her degree from Tulane] and she told the doctor she would need to see lab work before she filled the prescription. And this was over something like a .25 mg difference in an existing prescription. Since when do pharmacists have the right to ask for lab work?

This is one of many examples I've heard of lately of pharmacists oyut of control.

6 posted on 02/28/2023 3:59:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

There are some drugs that cannot be dispensed without lab results


23 posted on 02/28/2023 5:06:02 PM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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