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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
Is it really the pharmacy's job to communicate potential side effects?
Yeah it stinks but it seems like this possible effect is well-known. It would obviously be on the label and was likely advised to her by her doctor who prescribed it. At what point is it the consumer's fault? I guess that's what the lawsuit will discover.
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Is this a troll job? Are you ####ing serious?
Why do pharmacies pay pharmacists $100k per year and make them go through 4-years of schooling? And why has the government made this a restricted profession? Why can't I just go and open up a pharmacy and be a pharmasist, like I can go open up a coffee shop and be the barista?
If it isn't the pharmacy's responsibility to explain to customer's the possible sideffects of medication, what exactly is their job? And if their job is simply to fill perscriptions, why don't they get paid $12 an hour like the workers at couche-tard or 7/11?
Do you know what the saddest part of this story is? Its not that this girl died from a rare side-effect. Its that she was experiencing the side-effects that were a known precursor to death for 2 weeks. And she went to the doctor to explain the side effects she was experiencing.
The only problem was that the pharmasist who filled her perscription never told her in advance that death was a side-effect, and if she experiences the symptioms she was experiencing she should stop taking the medication immediately or she might die.
And so she died.
Because Shoppers Drug Mart corporate personnel is far too busy expanding and growing their product offerings to cheetos and turtles chocolates to actually think about the best practices for pharmaceutical service. In fact, they outsourced this part of their job (the written pamphlets that get handed out with a perception fill). Because thats where the money is, and there is no reprucussions for giving bad service (except that 18 y.o girls die. But that doesn't hurt the share price).
Gross Negligence, pure and simple. And there should be a law suit to hit the pocket books of Shoppers so they actually understand that pharmacy is public utility, and if they're unprepared to offer proper service, they should change their name to Shoppers Mart.
But there is a $85k maximum damages because the pharmacy industry has lobbied the government, and the government listened.
Monkeys riding donkeys.