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...you’re a pharmacist on a power trip, might I recommend that you consider working at Rite...
...face frustrating discrepancies because different pharmacies can charge different prices for the same drug. The numbers Fox gave the website for Reed's drugs were based on their "commonly purchased price," says marketing director David Kline, but the company rep gave Reed a higher quote in case her pharmacist charged more. He says the call center will now give quotes that match the website's. It may sound all too confusing, and indeed during a visit to a Virginia retirement community earlier this week, George W. Bush acknowledged that signing up for the drug benefit "is a daunting task...
...Virginia--have approved the use of ATM-style kiosks for prescription refills, and Hawaii has okayed them for first orders. Longs Drugs stores in California have already deployed at least four of the machines under a state Board of Pharmacy waiver that allows the dispensing of drugs without a pharmacist present. Pharmacists naturally worry that the kiosks will reduce their contact with customers. And many of those customers are likely to be elderly, say critics, rich targets for drug users looking for an easy score. --By Coco Masters...
...prepared at all and told themselves that nothing could happen to them." Los Angeles Correspondent Melissa Ludtke found the teens she interviewed strangely reticent about sex. "The last thing they want to do is tell an authority figure that they are having sex. That rules out a doctor, pharmacist or parent who might give good contraceptive advice." She talked to Michelle, pregnant at 14, whose mother had given birth to her as a teenager. When Ludtke asked Michelle if she had consulted her mother on how to avoid becoming pregnant, Michelle responded, "My mom said she wouldn...
Died. W.B. Lipes, 84, lieut. commander for the U.S. Navy and pharmacist's mate whose emergency appendectomy on a shipmate--the first ever on a submarine--became one of the most famous lifesaving feats of World War II; of pancreatic cancer; in New Bern, N.C. When Seaman Darrell Rector fell ill on Sept. 11, 1942, aboard the Seadragon--which had no doctor on board and was a week away from the nearest port--Lipes, who had observed the procedure as a lab technician, was ordered to lead the surgical team. Using ground sulfa pills as an antiseptic and a gauze...