Today at the pharmacy, it was so cold inside that I decide to eat lunch in my car as the sun was shining and the car was warm. When a man pulled up and realized the pharmacy was closed for lunch, (same lunch time every day for the passed 20 years) he knock on my car window to give me his prescriptions and ask when they would be ready.

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How do I unionize my store?

I am a staff pharmacist in one of the big chains, and I am fed up with the toxic work environment and the pushing for less paid tech hours and more unpaid labor from us salaried folk. I am asking, in all seriousness, where do I begin to get my store unionized?? Anyone who has experience with this, please provide your insight. I understand that this may have failed in the past, and I understand that this may fail again, but it will DEFINITELY fail if we sit back and allow the disrespect and abuse of our profession to continue. I went into this profession with the goal of helping my community, but it has been breaking my heart every shift as I watch corporate greed chip away at people’s faith in our profession and what we have to offer. I truly believe that things can change for the better for our profession- all we need to do is make it happen. ❤️

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oral ketorolac therapy without following parenteral therapy

So I had a urologist prescribe ketorolac oral therapy for a patient and I had asked the patient when they dropped off the Rx if they had been given any injectable ketorolac beforehand. He told me no. I have been under the impression that there is a black boxed warning for oral ketorolac to only be used as continuation for injectable therapy for a max combined duration of 5 days. I called the urologist and told him this and he said he's been prescribing this for twenty years and nobody has ever told him this. I refused to fill it and offered to change it to something else, he got mad and hung up on me. Do any of you fill this without confirming they were given parenteral ketorolac first? I know there's the black boxed warning for it, but does anybody know the rationale for it?

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Pharmacists and techs who worked with multiple pharmacy software programs: what is your favorite and easiest to use software you used to fill at your pharmacy?

Mine has so far been McKesson Enterprise but would love to hear other opinions.

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Need a drug name for my rescue cat.

So… scrolling thru the popular posts rn this is a lil dif topic. I currently have a cat named Percocet who I call Percy and i recently rescued a cat named Sadie. I didn’t want to change her name cuz it suits her but I’m having a hell of a time finding a drug name to go with that. I would appreciate any suggestions and brand or generic is fine, no DAWs here lol

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Posted by9 hours ago

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