E-DRUG: pharmacy drivers

["karina y adrian" <kariadri@cvtci.com.ar>]

E-DRUG: pharmacy drivers (cont)
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I am not very kind of the idea of pharmacy drivers detecting medicine
problems. As far as I am concerned, the pharmacy employees  don't know
about dosage, interactions, warnings, indications, contraindications.
And this sort of knowledge is needed to detect medicine problems.

I am not against training pharmacy employees, but I don't think a
simple training is just enough.

karina y adrian
Argentina
kariadri@cvtci.com.ar

[Agreed - the profession of pharmacists cannot be replaced by pharmacy drivers.
But I think it is possible to train pharmacy drivers in the detection of
problems, such as lack of compliance - sorry, I mean concordance. They could
signal these problems to the pharmacist, and support the patient (consumer) to
bring their problems or questions to the attention of the pharmacist.
Seeing a patient in his/her home environment can give you lots of different
information (piling up medicine etc.) WB]
 
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