[Newsbot]

Title: Pharmacists say corporate pressure can lead to prescription mistakes
Category: Health
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2015-01-23 06:43:02
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.

[martin14]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions.

Mine does this, how anyone can read it is beyond me.

[Regina]

Doctor entitlement: "I can be the biggest jerk and it's everyone else's fault for the mistakes."

[Unsound]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.

Mine does the same.

I have a friend who works as a pharmacist in a hospital. Doctors are pretty much the bane of his existence as well. Apparently they have a hard believing that they can make mistakes or not know everything. He's constantly trying to educate them on the drugs they're passing out.

[DrCaleb]

Unsound Unsound:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.

Mine does the same.

I have a friend who works as a pharmacist in a hospital. Doctors are pretty much the bane of his existence as well. Apparently they have a hard believing that they can make mistakes or not know everything. He's constantly trying to educate them on the drugs they're passing out.

My specialist hand writes prescriptions. My Pharmacist (and I) can never read it, but luckily it's just a yearly renewal for the same thing he wrote last year. So it's not a big deal. But on the news last night, they had a story about a kid who got instead of Accutane (for acne), Accupril (for blood pressure). A very, very bad mixup.

[Unsound]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

But on the news last night, they had a story about a kid who got instead of Accutane (for acne), Accupril (for blood pressure). A very, very bad mixup.

Wow!

That seems like something the pharmacy should've caught. If a kid anyone under 30 comes in for blood pressure meds you should probably ask a few questions.

[Regina]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Unsound Unsound:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.

Mine does the same.

I have a friend who works as a pharmacist in a hospital. Doctors are pretty much the bane of his existence as well. Apparently they have a hard believing that they can make mistakes or not know everything. He's constantly trying to educate them on the drugs they're passing out.

My specialist hand writes prescriptions. My Pharmacist (and I) can never read it, but luckily it's just a yearly renewal for the same thing he wrote last year. So it's not a big deal. But on the news last night, they had a story about a kid who got instead of Accutane (for acne), Accupril (for blood pressure). A very, very bad mixup.

I could write a book on this one. Depending on the specialty they believe are God. Top of the food chain will only bend if there is money in it for them or if it saves them $.

[Xort]

Of all the jobs that could be safely converted to machines only this seems like one that's long over due.

[Freakinoldguy]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.

Mine to but then, he wrote me a list of vitamins he thought I should be taking and it took me, 3 pharmacists, 2 pharmacies and a health food store to decipher the crap. So when you think about it, the fact that more people haven't died from indecipherable prescriptions is really quite amazing.

[Regina]

Xort Xort:

Of all the jobs that could be safely converted to machines only this seems like one that's long over due.

Fortunately you are an idiot and that will never happen.

[Jabberwalker]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.

Mine to but then, he wrote me a list of vitamins he thought I should be taking and it took me, 3 pharmacists, 2 pharmacies and a health food store to decipher the crap. So when you think about it, the fact that more people haven't died from indecipherable prescriptions is really quite amazing.

My mother died of a pharmaceutical side effect.

[Freakinoldguy]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.

Mine to but then, he wrote me a list of vitamins he thought I should be taking and it took me, 3 pharmacists, 2 pharmacies and a health food store to decipher the crap. So when you think about it, the fact that more people haven't died from indecipherable prescriptions is really quite amazing.

My mother died of a pharmaceutical side effect.

Sorry to hear that and people, doctors included think it would never happen but, unfortunately your family is proof it does.

I've told my doctor a couple of times that I wouldn't take a prescription he gave me because of the side effects and his response was. Don't believe what you read on the internet or, his best one yet was that he and his clinic colleagues prescribed this a thousand times with no adverse effects to the patients.

He wasn't to happy when I informed him that given his statement, the odds of a bad reaction just got considerably higher.

[Xort]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

He wasn't to happy when I informed him that given his statement, the odds of a bad reaction just got considerably higher.

That's not how probability works. Unless their was some carried forward interaction between the past test pool and yourself.

[bootlegga]

I know half a dozen pharmacists and most of them either work in hospitals or own their pharmacies for this very reason (corporate pressure).

Regina Regina:

I could write a book on this one. Depending on the specialty they believe are God. Top of the food chain will only bend if there is money in it for them or if it saves them $.

I worked with lots of doctors in different specialties at the University of Alberta and close to half of them were pretty decent about working with peons like myself, but you are right that there is a large number who think they are God.