What Your Pharmacist Can Really Do

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[Fernandez218]

@kingchriskong are you a pharmacist, pharmacist student, or work in a pharmacy?

what goes on in this video is not realistic for a retail-pharmacy. maybe Long-term healthcare facilities. also unrealistic for mail-order pharmacies.

i'm not a pharmacist; i'm just a lowly nationally certified tech at cvs who works 25 hrs a week while going to university.

[kingchriskong]

@Fernandez218 the reason you never see this is because corporate pressure forces pharmacists to do activities that make them money. If the pharmacist sat down with every patient like in the video, he would be fired. In some areas, insurance companies have realized how much money MTM can save them in the long run as it prevents trips to the hospital. If or when all insurances (or Medicaid) pay for MTM and retail pharmacies see the money that can be made you will see this everywhere.

[NOUHA24]

while the physician is the expert of deseases, the pharmacist is the expert of medecine!!

it is perfectly normal that physicians have good knowledge in drugs and pharmacists in deseases as well !!

i'm a student in pharmacy and i can tell you that the pharmacist is the best person to prescribe medecine and choose the right drugs for you !

[Fernandez218]

"what your pharmacist CAN do" i work at a retail pharmacy; this stuff never happens. nobody looks with that level of detail -- never seen MTM

[TheBottomContributor]

Do pharmacists really do it like that? Seems like a slap on the face of the doctor. I would have thought those things would be described privately, which also avoids the fact that the patient, if they still need it, might drop the doctor under the pretense that their pharmacist told them it is useless.