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Should Physicians Fill Your Prescriptions After They Write Them?

Most patients receive a prescription from their doctor, which they then take to a pharmacy to be filled. Recently, however, more and more do

National Center for Health Research

Just saw a post that I understand was meant to be humorous/venting, wondering why doctor’s offices don’t fill prescriptions, and, as someone who has read about why, my reaction was…definitely not lighthearted enough to put on that post

Still, for people who don’t know, here’s a big reason why you do not want your doctor to also fill your prescriptions (and also why it should be a big red flag when ~alternative medicine~ practitioners do)–the tl;dr is “the more aspects of your healthcare a single person is in charge of, the more they can use that to their advantage to profit from”

Another thing is that sometimes the pharmacists will catch a drug interaction that the doctor didn’t even know about.

^that. Pharmacists know more about drugs than doctors; that’s their whole job. I think there’s a conversation to be had that doctors should communicate much more with pharmacists and have more conversations about which medicines are effective for the symptoms the patient is experiencing, instead of relying on brand recognition and pharmaceutical reps.

But even outside of that, and outside of any sort of profit motive (which there absolutely can be): the more things a single practitioner is in charge of, the more that can get missed or forgotten. I don’t want my doctor in charge of dispensing my meds on top of prescribing them; it would be way too easy for them to screw something up.

👏PHARMACISTS👏

(via dollsahoy)