Mail-in-Pharmacies

September 7, 2011 2 comments
mail-in-pharmacy

Many health insurance companies now days are forcing their patients to get their prescriptions filled from the mail in pharmacies. These insurance companies would only pay for one extra refill or a maximum of three refills for some of the maintenance drugs like synthroid, lasix, plavix, etc. The reason behind this is simple of keeping [...]

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Common Pharmacy Drug Abbreviations

July 7, 2011 1 comment
Pharmacy drug Abbreviations

Do you remember the last post we wrote about things to do after getting accepted in doctor of pharmacy program?? We talked about some useful tips and in the end we talked about memorizing some short abbreviations, which are required by many colleges on the first day of class. We decided to put some common [...]

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I got accepted in Pharm.D Program. Now what?

June 12, 2011 2 comments
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Everyone knows that it is hard to get in Doctor of pharmacy program and after completing big step, they think that they are done. Wait guys!!! I think you just got started into your actual pharmacy program. There is lots of stuff that you might need to do before you start P1 class to set [...]

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Adherence

June 3, 2011 0 comments
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Let’s start with few questions. How many of you like to take medications? How many of you make sure that you don’t miss a single dose and take it exactly as prescribed? Well if you are one of that people who don’t like to take medications and often miss/skip a dose or two, then you [...]

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Medication Therapy Management [MTM]

May 29, 2011 0 comments
medication-therapy-management

Medication therapy management is also referred as MTM. Medication therapy management is service provided by pharmacists who have broad knowledge of medication and helps patients to get benefits from medication they are taking and solving medication related problems. Medication therapy management was first introduced by APhA formal president Ronald Jordan in 2004, but recently all [...]

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Bottom Line of Pharmacy Industry

May 26, 2011 0 comments
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We all have been talking about making our pharmacy profession more patients oriented by introducing various MTM formats, coming up with better ways of counseling patients and many more things. But how real are all those things in real world? How many pharmacists are doing the real job of what pharmacist are supposed to do [...]

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