Tag: working in pharmacy is suffering

ohnoagremlin:

gahdamnpunk:

AND a race one since the most affected regions will be
Africa, Asia and Oceania

as a friend pointed out, this headline makes it sound like supply will be dwindling. supply is fine. people will be *priced out*.

Seriously, do you have any idea how many people I have to call in a week because their insurance either outright refuses to pay for the insulin, or makes the patient pay anywhere from $30 to $300 a vial? One vial. Some of them go through four vials a month. This is not a rich area, and the fact that I have to make those phone calls more and more often makes me sick to my stomach because this could cost lives, probably is costing lives. 

Scratch that, it’s already cost lives. 

spooniestrong:

DO NOT EAT GRAPEFRUIT IF YOU TAKE OPIOIDS.

I recently learned that compounds in grapefruit juice called furanocouramins increase the blood concentration of both oxycodone and oxymorphone, and in half the time than without grapefruit juice.

Know what that means? The grapefruit juice increases the potency of your normal dose.

THIS IS LIFE-THREATENING.

Grapefruit already interacts with many medications, but this is dangerous. You could overdose. You could die.

Save a Spoonie.

Please pass this on. 💙

Here, about halfway down is a list of specific medications.

dynamicsymmetry:

kaijuno:

People always gloss over how mentally damaging it can be to work in retail. I fucking hate that whenever I say “I could never work in retail again” someone has to reply “You snowflake millennials can’t take a starter job because you have to INTERACT with other people” No. Fuck you. I’ve worked as a planetarium host. I’ve worked as a public speaker. I’ve worked as a tutor and as a student teacher. I can work with people. I can work with crowds. Retail was fucking different. Retail was being treated as a subhuman. Retail was being treated so poorly that you have anxiety attacks before work. Having to work retail was a factor in my last suicide attempt. If I hear you say one fucking word about retail workers playing the victim I will personally break every bone in your body. Fuck You.

The holidays are coming up. Retail workers are going to be spiraling into a nightmare beyond human comprehension. If you’ve worked retail, you know this. If you haven’t, be aware of it. Please be kind to every retail worker you come across. Please be patient and understanding. It is misery out there.

lethargicactionhero:

erykahisnotokay:

runawayhurricane:

totalharmonycycle:

southernrepublicangirl:

Ah the free market at work.
(Similar to when I went to CVS to pickup a 90$ prescription and they had their own generic version for 7.99).

This is important!
Tell your Friends.

I can’t believe some insurances quit covering them 😐

From Slate:

The generic Adrenaclick will cost $109.99 for two doses, compared with $649.99 for the same amount of drug in an EpiPen. That’s good news, both for financial and safety reasons: STAT reported last year that some parents and institutions had begun filling up syringes with epinephrine as a cost-cutting measure, a DIY solution that could pose great risk to the children who may have eventually needed injections. A more affordable alternative will help ensure safer epinephrine injections.

That’s assuming, though, that the people who need these devices know exactly what to ask for when they’re sitting in their doctors’ offices. Otherwise, they’ll still be stuck with the overpriced product. Here’s why: The mechanism by which Adrenaclick injects the drug is slightly different from EpiPen’s mechanism, so the Food and Drug Administration has ruled that the two are not therapeutically equivalent. That distinction is important because it means a prescription for an EpiPen cannot be filled with Adrenaclick. If you want the cheaper option, you have to have an Adrenaclick prescription.

You must ask your doctor for an Adrenaclick prescription! 

I also found a coupon from Impax on 0.15mg and 0.3mg epinephrine injection, USP auto-injectors, which appear to be the generic version of Adrenaclick; these coupons cover up to $100 per pack for 3 packs of these injectors (6 total injectors).

Some customers may be automatically eligible for $100 off the retail price thus only paying $10 for a pack, but this may be good backup for those who for whatever reason do not meet those requirements.

Pass this information on, potentially save a life.

Especially since there is still a shortage on both Epipens and the generic epinephrine injectors! I haven’t been able to get them in the pharmacy for weeks, so do be aware of that also, and make sure the pharmacy has them or their warehouse has them in stock!

quixylvre:

bannableoffense:

pervocracy:

Proposition: when one person has to cover a shift that is normally done by two people, they get paid double.  This is both to compensate them for working twice as hard, and to remove any temptation for management to think “hey, actually that wasn’t so bad, maybe we should do this more often.”

YES

Make the pay **more** than double for that one employee so that it’s more costly than hiring 2 people like they’re supposed to do in the first place