Pharmacy badly needs a hero right now. Every story I hear in the national news, on the online blogs, and from my personal grapevine has the same theme. Pharmacy is being demeaned by employers, indifferent pharmacy boards, out-of-touch academicians, and our own loss of mojo. The “Most Trusted Profession” is turning into the “Most Trampled Profession.”
At present, the news media are having a heyday with unauthorized prescription refills, alleged prescription fraud, pharmacies shuttered for excessive narcotic dispensing, and substandard compounding practices causing patient deaths.
Not all of this can be laid at the feet of the practicing pharmacist, but we have allowed it to happen. Emboldened by a surplus of pharmacists for the first time in many years, chain-pharmacy middle management is making all the calls now, and they are mostly bad. Never have I heard so much despair and discontent voiced by pharmacists.
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