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Retail pharmacists are expected to verify prescriptions, counsel patients, give vaccines, catch medication errors, and handle clinical issues.
But with constant short staffing, we’re also doing pickup, filling,register, inventory task,insurance problems, routine phone calls, customer complaints, and other non-clinical work.
I’m all for helping the team, but at what point are big chains using pharmacists as expensive general labor instead of actually using our professional skills?
Is this simply part of retail pharmacy now, or is chronic understaffing pushing too much non-pharmacist work onto pharmacists?
Curious what other retail pharmacists think.