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whats up with the pharmacies lately?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hedgehog1" data-source="post: 1664872" data-attributes="member: 5812"><p>Another thing that is causing issues is some major medication shortages. (The spouse is a pharmacist, so it's grousing about pharmaceutical companies is sort of dinner table chat for us.) There are companies who cannot or will not produce enough of the older, well-established medications to meet the market demand. As a result, pharmacies (and hospitals) are left with a few options: 1) go without the meds that have been the gold standard for years 2) "upgrade" to the newer meds that the companies are making that cost more and are not necessarily more effective, 3) start using "gray market" sources (which has become very common in some places) or 4) raise prices. The retail cost of some medications has gone up by as much as a thousand percent since the beginning of the year. Trust me, the pharmacy staff are just as annoyed as you. My husband met with a rep from one of these companies not long ago and told the rep that unless he was there to give my husband the medications he needed to be able to care for his patients, any "new and improved" drug information was likely to wind up in the "folder of epic shame and failure" until the backorders were fixed since my husband regarded it as a glaring gap in continuity of care.</p><p>The issue of having phone queues and such opens up another can of worms that I think Doc did an excellent job of answering. Hope this helps some more...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hedgehog1, post: 1664872, member: 5812"] Another thing that is causing issues is some major medication shortages. (The spouse is a pharmacist, so it's grousing about pharmaceutical companies is sort of dinner table chat for us.) There are companies who cannot or will not produce enough of the older, well-established medications to meet the market demand. As a result, pharmacies (and hospitals) are left with a few options: 1) go without the meds that have been the gold standard for years 2) "upgrade" to the newer meds that the companies are making that cost more and are not necessarily more effective, 3) start using "gray market" sources (which has become very common in some places) or 4) raise prices. The retail cost of some medications has gone up by as much as a thousand percent since the beginning of the year. Trust me, the pharmacy staff are just as annoyed as you. My husband met with a rep from one of these companies not long ago and told the rep that unless he was there to give my husband the medications he needed to be able to care for his patients, any "new and improved" drug information was likely to wind up in the "folder of epic shame and failure" until the backorders were fixed since my husband regarded it as a glaring gap in continuity of care. The issue of having phone queues and such opens up another can of worms that I think Doc did an excellent job of answering. Hope this helps some more... [/QUOTE]
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