I disagree with one aspect of the Paxlovid issue. I don’t think pharmacists should be prescribing it because we’re already so laden with other tasks, it’s getting too be overwhelming. Leave that with the MD’s.
My issue is that most doctors don’t have a fuqing clue about drug interactions. They take one quarter in school on drugs and interactions. While pharmacists spend 4 years post grad going through and understanding all of that.
We have to call the doctors EVERY. DAMN. DAY when they put a patient on some new medication that interacts with one of their other medications. I’d say 20-25% of the time they don’t even know the correct dosing schedule for certain medications.
So to say MD’s know the interactions more than PharmD’s is patently false.
Good point regarding drug interactions. Most pharmacist’s are clueless, unquestioning, and accepting of anything offered by the medical industrial regulatory complex. Fact: pharmacists would not dispense Ivermectin. They embraced Paxlovid. The “active ingredient” as stated is the 3CL nsp5 protease inhibitor. What is Ivermectin?
I’ve lost a tremendous amount of respect for my colleagues over the last few years.
I disagree with one aspect of the Paxlovid issue. I don’t think pharmacists should be prescribing it because we’re already so laden with other tasks, it’s getting too be overwhelming. Leave that with the MD’s.
My issue is that most doctors don’t have a fuqing clue about drug interactions. They take one quarter in school on drugs and interactions. While pharmacists spend 4 years post grad going through and understanding all of that.
We have to call the doctors EVERY. DAMN. DAY when they put a patient on some new medication that interacts with one of their other medications. I’d say 20-25% of the time they don’t even know the correct dosing schedule for certain medications.
So to say MD’s know the interactions more than PharmD’s is patently false.
Good point regarding drug interactions. Most pharmacist’s are clueless, unquestioning, and accepting of anything offered by the medical industrial regulatory complex. Fact: pharmacists would not dispense Ivermectin. They embraced Paxlovid. The “active ingredient” as stated is the 3CL nsp5 protease inhibitor. What is Ivermectin?
I’ve lost a tremendous amount of respect for my colleagues over the last few years.