It started last year when the New York Times published reports from pharmacists at major chains like CVS and Walgreens describing “understaffed and chaotic workplaces where they said it had become difficult to perform their jobs safely, putting the public at risk of medication errors.” After COVID hit, we started to feel those effects locally. State boards investigated, and in June of 2020 CVS was fined when their medication error rate clocked in at a whooping 22%.
“I am a danger to the public,” one pharmacist told the Times.
Among the errors we’ve seen on the rise are: 1) Not receiving prescriptions called in or sent electronically, 2) Filling old prescriptions after we’ve changed doses on new ones, 3) Pharmacies neglecting to contact us after telling patients they would call us to request a refill.
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Gates Pharmacy
North Main Pharmacy
Stokes Pharmacy
Blue Ridge Pharmacy
Boone Drug
Wilkes Family Pharmacy
Adams Farm Pharmacy
Adler Pharmacy
Crossroads Pharmacy
Friendly Pharmacy
Andrews Apothecary
Hawthorne Pharmacy
Jonestown Pharmacy
Marley Drug
Robinhood Family Pharmacy
Stanleyville Pharmacy
Good Neighbor Pharmacies
Independent Pharmacy Directory
Pharmacy Proud
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