Word: pharmacist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college student in the 1980s, I spent a summer working as an intern in a hospital pharmacy. Whenever we received a prescription order, I would go to the stock shelves, find the right bottle and count out the number of pills that were called for. A registered pharmacist verified my work and swept the pills into a container with the patient's name, which was then delivered to the appropriate floor. One day I put a weaker dose of a heart medication on the counting tray than I should have. Neither the pharmacist nor I caught my mistake...
...doctor to write out both the generic and brand names of your prescription. Find out from him or her what condition the drug is supposed to treat, how to take it and what possible side effects you might expect. Then, as a check, ask those same questions of the pharmacist who fills the order. Most of the time there won't be a problem. But it never hurts to learn all you can about what you're putting in your body...
Planned Parenthood pressed the company for a clarification on its pharmacy policy. Wal-Mart then sent a directive to each of its pharmacists requiring them to fulfill any emergency prescription, which is consistent with the American Pharmaceutical Association's code of ethics. Any pharmacist whose personal beliefs prevented him from filling such a prescription must find someone who will. So day-after contraception is available, even if, for business reasons, Preven is not. "We don't care what their motivation is," says Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood, who gives the company good marks for its responsiveness. "Our concern...
...before illegible scrawls on prescription pads go the way of leeches. Enter the latest boon of the information age: e-prescribing. A company called Allscripts, with help from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, has developed a hand-held wireless device that allows doctors to deliver your Rx straight to the pharmacist's computer. Given the rapid increase in drugs with similar names, it's a technology that could save medical careers, not to mention lives. Last week in West Texas, a court ordered cardiologist RAMACHANDRA KOLLURU to pay $225,000 to the family of a heart patient who died after receiving...
...before illegible scrawls on prescription pads go the way of leeches. Enter the latest boon of the information age: e-prescribing. A company called Allscripts, with help from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, has developed a hand-held wireless device that allows doctors to deliver your Rx straight to the pharmacist's computer. Given the rapid increase in drugs with similar names, it's a technology that could save medical careers, not to mention lives. Last week in West Texas, a court ordered cardiologist Ramachandra Kolluru to pay $225,000 to the family of a heart patient who died after receiving...