news Canadian News
Good Morning Guest | login or register
  • Home
    • Canadian News
    • Popular News
    • News Voting Log
    • News Images
  • Forums
    • Recent Topics Scroll
    •  
    • Politics Forums
    • Sports Forums
    • Regional Forums
  • Content
    • Achievements
    • Canadian Content
    • Famous Canadians
    • Famous Quotes
    • Jokes
    • Canadian Maps
  • Photos
    • Picture Gallery
    • Wallpapers
    • Recent Activity
  • About
    • About
    • Contact
    • Link to Us
    • Points
    • Statistics
  • Shop
  • Register
    • Gold Membership
  • Archive
    • Canadian TV
    • Canadian Webcams
    • Groups
    • Links
    • Top 10's
    • Reviews
    • CKA Radio
    • Video
    • Weather

Pharmacists say corporate pressure can lead to

Canadian Content
20690news upnews down
Link Related to Canada in some say

Pharmacists say corporate pressure can lead to prescription mistakes


Health | 206902 hits | Jan 23 6:43 am | Posted by: DrCaleb
11 Comment

Some Canadian pharmacists are saying they are under intense pressure to meet business quotas, which causes an assembly-line mentality that increases the likelihood of making mistakes, a Marketplace investigation has revealed.

Comments

  1. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri Jan 23, 2015 3:04 pm
    My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.

  2. by avatar martin14
    Fri Jan 23, 2015 3:16 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions.



    Mine does this, how anyone can read it is beyond me.

  3. by Regina  Gold Member
    Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:38 pm
    Doctor entitlement: "I can be the biggest jerk and it's everyone else's fault for the mistakes." :roll:

  4. by avatar Unsound
    Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:52 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.


    Mine does the same.

    I have a friend who works as a pharmacist in a hospital. Doctors are pretty much the bane of his existence as well. Apparently they have a hard believing that they can make mistakes or not know everything. He's constantly trying to educate them on the drugs they're passing out.

  5. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri Jan 23, 2015 5:12 pm
    "Unsound" said
    My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.


    Mine does the same.

    I have a friend who works as a pharmacist in a hospital. Doctors are pretty much the bane of his existence as well. Apparently they have a hard believing that they can make mistakes or not know everything. He's constantly trying to educate them on the drugs they're passing out.

    My specialist hand writes prescriptions. :( My Pharmacist (and I) can never read it, but luckily it's just a yearly renewal for the same thing he wrote last year. So it's not a big deal. But on the news last night, they had a story about a kid who got instead of Accutane (for acne), Accupril (for blood pressure). A very, very bad mixup.

  6. by avatar Unsound
    Fri Jan 23, 2015 5:19 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    But on the news last night, they had a story about a kid who got instead of Accutane (for acne), Accupril (for blood pressure). A very, very bad mixup.


    Wow! 8O

    That seems like something the pharmacy should've caught. If a anyone under 30 comes in for blood pressure meds you should probably ask a few questions.

  7. by Regina  Gold Member
    Sat Jan 24, 2015 2:08 am
    "DrCaleb" said
    My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.


    Mine does the same.

    I have a friend who works as a pharmacist in a hospital. Doctors are pretty much the bane of his existence as well. Apparently they have a hard believing that they can make mistakes or not know everything. He's constantly trying to educate them on the drugs they're passing out.

    My specialist hand writes prescriptions. :( My Pharmacist (and I) can never read it, but luckily it's just a yearly renewal for the same thing he wrote last year. So it's not a big deal. But on the news last night, they had a story about a kid who got instead of Accutane (for acne), Accupril (for blood pressure). A very, very bad mixup.
    I could write a book on this one. Depending on the specialty they believe are God. Top of the food chain will only bend if there is money in it for them or if it saves them $.

  8. by avatar Xort
    Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:52 am
    Of all the jobs that could be safely converted to machines only this seems like one that's long over due.

  9. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:55 am
    "DrCaleb" said
    My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.


    Mine to but then, he wrote me a list of vitamins he thought I should be taking and it took me, 3 pharmacists, 2 pharmacies and a health food store to decipher the crap. So when you think about it, the fact that more people haven't died from indecipherable prescriptions is really quite amazing. 8O

  10. by Regina  Gold Member
    Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:43 am
    "Xort" said
    Of all the jobs that could be safely converted to machines only this seems like one that's long over due.

    Fortunately you are an idiot and that will never happen.

  11. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:11 pm
    "Freakinoldguy" said
    My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.


    Mine to but then, he wrote me a list of vitamins he thought I should be taking and it took me, 3 pharmacists, 2 pharmacies and a health food store to decipher the crap. So when you think about it, the fact that more people haven't died from indecipherable prescriptions is really quite amazing. 8O

    My mother died of a pharmaceutical side effect.

  12. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:50 pm
    "Jabberwalker" said
    My Pharmacist say the worst thing is when Doctors had write prescriptions. Deciphering them is sometimes impossbile. She loves Doctors like my GP, who has a computer program he just clicks check boxes and types the dosages and prints it off. No mistakes, that way.


    Mine to but then, he wrote me a list of vitamins he thought I should be taking and it took me, 3 pharmacists, 2 pharmacies and a health food store to decipher the crap. So when you think about it, the fact that more people haven't died from indecipherable prescriptions is really quite amazing. 8O

    My mother died of a pharmaceutical side effect.

    Sorry to hear that and people, doctors included think it would never happen but, unfortunately your family is proof it does.

    I've told my doctor a couple of times that I wouldn't take a prescription he gave me because of the side effects and his response was. Don't believe what you read on the internet or, his best one yet was that he and his clinic colleagues prescribed this a thousand times with no adverse effects to the patients.

    He wasn't to happy when I informed him that given his statement, the odds of a bad reaction just got considerably higher.

  13. by avatar Xort
    Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:09 pm
    "Freakinoldguy" said
    He wasn't to happy when I informed him that given his statement, the odds of a bad reaction just got considerably higher.


    That's not how probability works. Unless their was some carried forward interaction between the past test pool and yourself.

  14. by avatar bootlegga
    Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:58 pm
    I know half a dozen pharmacists and most of them either work in hospitals or own their pharmacies for this very reason (corporate pressure).

    "Regina" said
    I could write a book on this one. Depending on the specialty they believe are God. Top of the food chain will only bend if there is money in it for them or if it saves them $.


    I worked with lots of doctors in different specialties at the University of Alberta and close to half of them were pretty decent about working with peons like myself, but you are right that there is a large number who think they are God.



    :lol:



view comments in forum
Page 1

You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news.

  • Login
  • Register (free)
 Share  Digg It Bookmark to del.icio.us Share on Facebook


Share on Facebook Submit page to Reddit
CKA About |  Legal |  Advertise |  Sitemap |  Contact   canadian mobile newsMobile

All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner.
The comments are property of their posters, all the rest © 2025 by Canadaka.net