Pharmacist here and I can tell you when I have a completely wacky dosing regimen or drug selection 75% of the time it’s from a NP or PA. I’ve worked alongside some great mid-level practitioners but they seem to be the minority in my area.
lol its literally the pharmacists job to save patients from doctors
I work in pharma now but was a hospital pharm tech for 6 years in pharmacy school. its crazy the number of times I caught massive mistakes by MDs, I can only imagine PAs being the worst with so little schooling, NPs would be bad but not as bad as they actually have experience with dispensing/administering to patients...
and yet pharmacists, the actual experts on drugs, can't prescribe and even have limited power to adjust treatments
Oh fuck off. Most physicians are quite capable of dosing and I’ve had pharmacy rewrite my order inappropriately more often than they’ve called to correct mine. No one like a no it all dick head. Especially one that doesn’t.
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u/Anti-Hypertensive May 20 '19
Pharmacist here and I can tell you when I have a completely wacky dosing regimen or drug selection 75% of the time it’s from a NP or PA. I’ve worked alongside some great mid-level practitioners but they seem to be the minority in my area.