Provided by The Pharmacy Chick
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43536286/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
The above link is to a most interesting and disturbing article about the increasing rise in pharmacy robberies, more and more with deadly results. I was also a little disturbed by Mr Keith Hodges who comments at the very end of the article: he writes:
Some pharmacies are even considering installing bullet-proof windows like those found in many banks.
But Hodges, the Virginia pharmacist, worries that the security precautions are harming legitimate customers by lengthening the wait to fill prescriptions and eroding the relationship between pharmacists and patients.
If pharmacists are forced to work behind bulletproof glass, it will discourage customers from asking questions about their treatments, he said.
“The more a patient knows, the healthier they’re going to be in the long run,” Hodges said. “They need to have access to their pharmacist”
So its ok that pharmacists get killed so we can have shorter wait times and patients have access to us? Sorry, I dont buy it. Terrorists got bolder and blew up planes and the industry reacted by tightening security. Drug addicts are bolder and killing pharmacists and all Mr Hodges cares about is “access to the pharmacist”.
WTF!
We live in a different world than we used to. Maybe its finally time that the business of pharmacy adapts to this time. We have been operating the same basic pharmacy layout since the beginning of time. We can’t do this anymore.
Just ask the family members of the 4 people killed in Long Island.
The Pharmacy Chick is a retail pharmacist in the Western United States, gutting it out in fairly busy store. She ticks off each day as one more day closer to retirement, after 22 years in the biz. She remember typewriters, rolls of labels, want books, and everybody paid cash. Now all she wants to remember is what all her passwords are!
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