American Healthcare continues to go backward
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My brother and I talked about this for a long time this afternoon and there were several thoughts that came out of the discussion.1.5M views · 46K reactions | At a dramatic White House press conference, Americans got a cut on Ozempic prices, a new diet plan, and perhaps the greatest image of the Trump presidency | The Daily Show
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1. Mark Cuban is likely to end up running TrumpRx. He already has the platform. He's going to get richer.
2. It's a hostile take-over of pharmacy and is going to lead to the destruction of our profession. We're both glad that we're near the end of our careers. We've had good ones. We've accomplished a lot.
3. Pharmacy seems to hate pharmacists. We don't know why. Nursing doesn't hate nurses. Nursing has pushed out into advanced clinical roles without being embarrassed of or leaving behind basic nursing functions. CNAs still do CNA things. LPNs still do LPN things. RNs still do RN things. But pharmacy seems to have an inferiority complex over basic pharmacist functions. We fought to get the right to vaccinate people. Now we want techs to be able to do it. WTF! It's like we're embarrassed over the basic things that pharmacists do our leadership wants to give them away to someone else rather than having pharmacists do them. I was at a state meeting where they were discussing having pharmacy techs doing med histories in the emergency room, something that I was training students to do in pharmacy school. And the statement was made "techs do it just as good." I said, "stop and think about what you just said. Is that a statement that you really want to make, that a tech with a high school diploma is just as good at taking a med history as a pharmacist with a doctorate and residency? Really?" Stunned silence.
4. Do you know who teaches CNAs? RNs. Do you know who teaches pharmacy techs? Pharmacy techs. Do you know why CNAs don't teach CNAs like pharmacy techs teach pharmacy techs? Because nurses won't allow it. I asked my brother, "How did nurses become so much smarter than us?"
It's like we as a profession have an inferiority complex. We want to be junior physicians and we're ashamed of our distributive functions. But it is good and honorable work, dammit! Maybe overpriced, but good and honorable work nonetheless!
TrumpRx will kill us. Why the American Pharmacist Association is not responding to it I don't know. They've got an entire section of their advocacy dedicated to the Dobbs decision though.
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