re: us healthcare complaining
@pharmafemboy ok, that's fair, i suppose i can give you thatthat's where the point about escripts comes in, have a database of the known bad drug combinations and have it throw a flag, a manual review, a place for a pharmacist to actually step in, approve or deny it
the case you brought up, benzodiazepines and opioids, it'd be particularly simple to have a database lookup do the heavy lifting there, possibly even auto deny before the prescription is made
other complex, sorta maybe bad to combine drugs, with cases where it might be ok to do so, yeah, could still have it get flagged and then a pharmacist steps in
but those are edge cases, a pharmacist shouldn't need to be involved for simple, day to day stuff
and especially not the nonsense i'm seeing with my own pharmacy where they're delaying my estradiol vial for.. some unknown reason? i'm switching from tablets to injections, sure, but is there really a problem there? it's effectively the same stuff, not exactly any new interactions to be had..