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10 signs it’s time to find a new pharmacy

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The always amusing Pharmacy Chick, a retail pharmacist, is not shy about pointing out when customers get on her nerves.

She recented posted her “top 10 ways you can tell you are no longer welcome at a pharmacy.”

Here they are:

10. You tell them your name is John Smith and [...]

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What would you do if your pharmacist refused to fill your prescription?

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The ABC News program “What Would You Do?” stages various hot-button scenarios on hidden camera to see how people will react. In this case, a pharmacist refuses to fill a 16-year-old girl’s prescription for contraceptives on moral grounds — a scenario that has played out in real life more than a few times [...]

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Pharmacists in panic mode over trend toward mail-order prescriptions

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As mail order shows signs of becoming the dominant distribution system for prescription drugs in the United States, independent retail pharmacists are shaking in their boots.

So much so that they are turning to Washington for a bailout — or at least for a sympathetic ear.

As Drug Topics reports:

The [...]

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Will Rite Aid go the way of the dinosaur?

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Rite Aid is a $24 billion company operating more than 5,000 drugstores in 31 states, making it the third-largest pharmacy chain in the United States. But unless this overpriced retailer receives some bailout money from heaven (’cause it’s sure not coming from Washington), the year 2009 may be its last.

Motley Fool has just [...]

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The Pharmacist has no cure for excessive dribbling

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“The Pharmacist” is the nickname for the “greatest street basketball player of all time.” He’s a big fan of the crossover dribble — and of distracting his opponents by pulling their jerseys over their heads while maintaining his dribble. Isn’t that a foul?

Watch him in action.

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