Opinion: Filling 12-month prescriptions is one practical way to help the pharmacist crisis
Getting a year’s worth of a maintenance medication in one visit makes life easier for both overworked pharmacists and patients.
Pharmacies could be called the most “rock solid” entity in our health care system. Even before Covid, pharmacies were held in high esteem; during the pandemic, they raised their game by making it easy for tens of millions of Americans to get vaccinated, fulfilling a long-standing ambition of pharmacists to provide more expansive clinical services.
But in recent months, it has become clear that pharmacists, and pharmacies, are fed up with working conditions. Recently, many overwhelmed pharmacists at chains, including Walgreens and CVS, have organized walkouts, saying that they are worried their working conditions are unsafe for patients who depend on their attention to detail.
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