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Never fails.

Yesterday the California Medicaid system (Medi-Cal) cut reimbursements by 10% across the boards for Doctors, Dentists and Pharmacies.

It annoys me how some people send their kids in to pick up their medication.

The way that I was raised is that people have a First, a Middle, and a Last name.

What could make drug reps even more annoying and obnoxious?

I posted the below comment on Dr.

Am I the only one who gets disgusted quite frequently at our own profession?

Hoverers.

As I was taking my customary pharmacy-dookie this morning, I was flipping through the latest Drug Topics when I saw a nice little advertisement for Luvox CR.

I saw this happen twice today, so I figure that I had better make the issue known.

Once in a while I’ll do these retrospective posts after reading some of the old entries that I have made.

Contrary to popular belief, there is a ton of ethical crap that goes along with being a Pharmacist.

As you all have heard/read; Perdue, the maker Oxycontin (AKA: Hillbilly Heroin), decided to sue the shit out of all of the generic Oxycontin manufacturers and cease production (or some patent shit.

The original post is here.

The first of the month is always super stressful for pharmacists.

This post is due to an educational grant from The Raging Server.

I’ve seen a lot of things come through my workplace.

Hi TAP I know I have called you an ass hole and a dick, but… well… there is a topic I have never seen your opinion on.

I hope the DEA is reading this, because they are not only a burden, but a tax drain on pharmacies and on the public in general.

Take a step back for a second and look at retail life.

When people bring in their blood glucose monitor to me for help (which I don’t mind really, as long as it was filled here and not Liberty Medical (fuck you)) there are a few things that are consistent as the sun rising in the morning and white bread/Velveeta cheese at a redneck BBQ.

I received this question from a doctor who frequents the site:

Its a fine, (if not lost) art to get the point across to a patient that they are too stupid to manage their medication without sounding like an asshole.

I recieved a comment recently from a fan (although I’m not sure if they will still be one after they read this) that took exception to my use of the word “retard” to describe some of the people I deal with on a daily basis.

For all of you out there who thought that my posts yesterday was an April fools joke, guess again.

Look at the comment I got to my victory post:

You know that feeling you get when you work really hard at something,

All pharmacies have patients like this.

Alright. I tried to lighten things up a bit by posting a funny entry that I did over a year ago but never made public.

Now I don’t mind explaining to people how their medication works, how to take it, and what it does.

One of the problems with writing entries that piss off a big portion of the online community is that you draw a ton of people to your site.

After letting that little diabetic rant stew for a few days (Oh, the uppity folk who pitched a bitch-fest came from here.

Ah look, the diabetics come out of the woodwork.

Why must people be obsessed with testing their blood sugar?

I hate cherry-picking pharmacies.

Why is it that 9 out of 10 Rx’s with a huge glaring mistake are written by NP/PA/CNM/Janitors who somehow got prescriptive authority before the people who actually went to school to learn about drugs?

So, it has come to my attention (a few days ago) that Airborne must pay 25 million due to a lawsuit claiming that it didn’t work.

Now before all of you Chain guys and gals send me anthrax and bombs in the mail, let me say a few things.

Theres some talk about how bad pharmacists that work for chains have it.

Copays are the bane of our existence.

Did I ever mention how much I hate it when people lose/get their meds stolen?

I’m going to go off on my own little banter about the same stupidity that has recently plagued The *Angriest* (because the *’s make it not like my site) Pharmacist.

So I’ve had just about enough of the boo-hoo bantering about the USA Today article about the baby who received 5x the “normal” amount of amoxicillin and would “writhe in pain”.

Amazing that I still get comments to my rant about the 14 year old pregnant girl.

The *Angriest* (sigh) Pharmacist wrote a Kick Ass Post that I think all of the students should read.

So I believe I am the last one on this gravy-train of pharmacist bashing that the USA-Today is onto.

This is going to be a very angry entry.

So some ignorant horrible spelling doctors decided to harass the *Angriest* Pharmacist over a rant I made about some idiot with 4 degrees who couldn’t write coherently to save his life.

I saw this comment on Kevin MD’s blog about a rant of mine.

You state: Now I went to college for 7 years, got my PharmD, yadda yadda