I recall our local grocery store had a pharmacy, in store.
The pharmacists stayed busy, but, never harried, like I’ve seen at the few Walgreens or CVS, or ANY current day pharmacy, I’ve been.
I guess BigPharma and BigMedicine have developed too many new drugs ($hots…cough, cough) with too many side effects requiring MORE drugs…for today’s pharmacists to keep up with.
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Except if they make one big mistake...something very untoward can happen. You wouldn’t want a lawyer, dentist, doctor, counselor. taxi driver, barber , etc to be working double time...too many errors and bad outcomes. If you knew all the checks the pharmacist has to do before dispensing a medication you would understand. It looks like taking one tablet or capsule into a different container with a name on it...but it is much deeper and the patients well being is at stake.
Walgreens just took over the Pharmacy in Fresh (Brookshires fancy grocery store). This could get ugly fast.
@ Your observation could just about sum it up.
My pharmacist is in locally owned wonderful grocery store. There’s rarely a line and everyone who works there is great.
I take one pharmaceutical drug, Lisinipril, cheap and effective for Heart. Failure. If my pharmacy closed, I do have a product recommended by my friend’s naturopath,
“Carditone”. It’s actually more effective than the prescription drug for keeping blood pressure down and my MD says OK, take it. You can buy it on Amazon.
I used to go to CVS and they had multiple pharmacists working. Then they cut the number down to one with a couple of clerks. Then they refused to honor the price of GoodRx or other discounts. Where I go now it’s half the price and there are no lines.