Pharmacist Life Death And Responsibility Essay

I have always loved staying for hours in my mom’s pharmacy. After a long day in my

In July 2001 Robert R. Courtney’s illegal and highly unethical behavior was brought to the attention of local authorities and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Courtney’s blatant disregard for the trust patients placed in him was evidenced by his daily violations of their rights and expectations while he supposedly provided quality healthcare service. By August 2001, following investigation, the FBI filed 20 federal charges against Courtney that carried a maximum prison sentence of 196 years (United Press International, 2002). $8 million of his assets which were estimated to be in excess of $10 million were frozen to be used as restitution for victims in the criminal case. Following a plea agreement Courtney’s prison

a) Pharmacists have ethical and legal obligations to ensure that the prescriptions they fill are valid, both in that the physician must be prescribing the medication for a valid reason and that the person filling the prescription must be doing so for valid therapeutic reasons (ASHP, 2008; Brushwood, n.d.). The court needs to take these obligations into account, and then must determine whether the frequency with which the prescription was refilled would have required a pharmacist to check with the patient's physician or at least another pharmacist in order to determine if the pattern represented abuse (Brushwood, n.d.). The basic considerations before the court, then, are the pattern of behavior (i.e. prescription refilling) represented in the facts and the relationship of this pattern to the legal and ethical standards of pharmacists. The addition was certainly a foreseeable consequence, and this means that standard applications of negligence torts might also be applicable.

As we see the further progression of the opioid epidemic within the United States, pharmacists become the frontlines to recognizing and providing care for these patients. It is however difficult to provide care for a patient when even the professionals within the medical community have an associated stigma attached to the use of these drugs. Patients who have a need for these painkillers recognize this stigma, and by doing so decide to avoid consulting their doctors and do not seek the care which they need. They do this to avoid the discriminatory treatment they receive both within and on the outside of the healthcare system, and to avoid the legal repercussions associated with the misuse and abuse of these products1. It is therefore the pharmacists' job to avoid the stigmatization of these people and respect those who use these treatments for legitimate medical purposes.

When I first learned we were going to be writing an I-Search paper in English, I was excited. I liked the idea that we got to pick our own topic and that it could be anything we chose it to be. However, I didn’t realize at the time how hard it actually was to find the “perfect” topic. I had many topics in mind, but I didn’t realize all the time you had to put into finding a good topic. The first thing we did in class to help us find our topic was filling out a personal web. This personal web was mainly any aspect in your life that is important to you or interests you. We discussed our webs with a partner, and they attempted to find the topics that we mentioned more than once or something they thought would be a good topic. Nothing really clicked for me in my personal web. I did have some ideas for my topic, but they just didn’t seem interesting. A lot of my classmates found a topic when they filled in their web, but I still wasn’t sure. My partner and I found that a lot of the topics in my web were related to children and the medical field, but I couldn’t think of a topic that tied them both together and would suit me.

In the video Escape Fire, I was so flabbergasted by the numbers and health outcomes we as a society have let our nation become. One of the most heart-wrenching evidence is, even though our health care industry is so expensive our health outcomes are the worse. 75% of disabilities and dead’s are preventable, according to the film.

Technicians help licensed pharmacists dispense medication to patients. They receive the prescription, enter it into

Traditional doctors prescribe their patients all types of drugs to treat conditions and diseases. Most people trust their physicians to give them the best care possible, but many doctors prescribe and recommend medications based on their relationship with a company. Pharmaceutical companies pay doctors or even provide meals, in exchange for meetings and education. In an article from Time Magazine from September 18, 2014, Your Doctor Should Reveal Biases and Pharma Ties, Says Group, author Alexandra Sifferlin explains the issue with these relationships. Sifferlin uses ethos, logos, pathos, and links to respectable websites to convince readers that patients should be made aware by their physicians of ties pharmaceutical companies and their positions of controversial practices.

When most people hear Pharmacist, they think of a drug store like Walgreens or CVS. However, a Pharmacist is capable of more than just working in a drug store. Pharmacists play a major role in healthcare today with many job opportunities. There are many different fields and career paths that a Pharmacist can choose. This essay will explore three different pharmacy careers that was examined through data collected by a survey on the internet. The three career pathways are Ambulatory Care Pharmacy, Chain Community Pharmacy, and Community Health Center Pharmacy.

Drug abuse and misuse are prominent problems in the United States, whether the issue is with trafficking, overdoses causing death, illegal recreational use in adolescents, or even improper prescriptions by medical professionals leading to physiological dependence. The formerly listed problems stem from outdated, yet current, classification system of drugs in the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The “Heroin Epidemic” is an example of a problem concerning improper prescribing in medical practice; this issue began when many medical professionals began to prescribe potent painkillers to their patients early in their treatments. Over time and with consistent use, the patients grew to psychologically and physiologically depend on the painkillers. Eventually, the prescribed painkillers became unaffordable and patients began to depend on a cheaper drug with similar, yet more dangerous, effects: heroin. As a result, many are addicted to heroin as compared to prescription drugs. There is also an issue concerning qualified medical professionals that “pill mill,” meaning they prescribe Schedule II drugs such as oxycodone with the sole purpose to make more money; this puts the patient in danger in exchange for the doctor’s personal benefit. As a student pursuing a career in the medical field, I find that the proper implementation and use of medicine and drugs is vital to providing quality health care, so that events like the heroin

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I will be evaluation my current job at the pharmacy. It is a functioning retain pharmacy that’s main purpose is to distribute drugs and assist in the wellbeing of our community.

On average, approximately 650,000 opioid prescription are written every day. In addition, each day 78 Americans die from an opioid-related overdose. (The opioid epidemic, 2016). Doctors undoubtedly play a big role in our opioid problem. As previously mentioned, the pharmaceutical companies are big reason for this. In addition, doctors just don’t want to deal with drug abuse problems, so they ignore them. Anna Lembke says, “It's something that a lot of doctors avoid, which is also why a lot of doctors don't even ask their patients about substance abuse problems, because they just don't want to go there. They don't want to have to deal with the tension that arises in the interaction, in the moment when they are talking about something that the

This article displayed many ethical situations that are currently taking place within our society. Big pharmaceutical companies are being accused by government regulators for taking advantage of patient’s health needs. Even though pharmaceutical companies are in the business to make a profit they have jeopardized patient’s life’s by unethically pushing their products on people who may not benefit from their product medically. This particular case demonstrated that these companies went as far as prompting their products to medical schools by giving out “gifts” as well as free lunches to medical students. These attempts were to brainwash young doctors to get in the habit of promoting their pharmaceutical products, even before they became practicing

Today in the 21st century the roles of pharmacist have expanded tremendously. Before pharmacist had the role of solely dispensing drugs. Pharmacists were limited to only being regulatory or clinical pharmacist. Back then they were called medical purveyors who were much like today’s regulatory pharmacist and hospital pharmacist who are similar to hospital pharmacist. Now pharmacists carry many roles in healthcare. Pharmacist can play roles in public health, community, health systems, state, and federal government.