UPDATE: Marshal gives description of Coupeville pharmacy armed robber

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Police have issued a description of the man who robbed Linds Pharmacy and Drug at gunpoint at 10:20 a.m. Monday in Coupeville.

In an email press release sent Monday afternoon, Coupeville Town Marshal David Penrod described the robber as approximately 5-feet, 6-inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He was wearing a dark colored hooded jacket or sweatshirt, dark colored jeans, a black mask, and brandished a silver handgun.

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Everyone needs an assistant to help them complete their day-to-day tasks, and a pharmacist is no different. A pharmacy technician is the pharmacist’s “assistant” and helps him or her keep the pharmacy running in an efficient and orderly manner – from counting medication to answering the phone.

Pharmacy technicians play an important role – when a prescription is received, the pharmacy technician checks the prescription, completes the insurance information, labels the bottle, measures the medication and pours it. Upon completion of the medical prescription, the pharmacist will double-check the medicine for any errors in measurement, count, or labeling. The pharmacy technician assists the head pharmacist, but the final word always comes from the pharmacist.
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No restraining order for pharmacist

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The pharmacist is facing a 24-count indictment on drug charges.


YOUNGSTOWN — A Mahoning County Common Pleas Court magistrate has denied a request by a pharmacist, who was indicted on criminal charges, for a temporary restraining order that would bar the state pharmacy board from conducting an administrative hearing on his pharmacy license while the criminal case is pending. Read more…

Fertility patients and their prescriptions: a two-year audit of patient-pharmacist interactions in a reproductive endocrinology practice

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This study assessed pharmacy performance and satisfaction as reported by patients during ovulation induction therapy. Material and methods: Patients (n=1269) receiving gonadotropin prescriptions for intrauterine insemination or in vitro fertilisation-embryo transfer in 2007-2008 were prospectively interviewed by nurses and/or completed a structured questionnaire to evaluate pharmacy performance.
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Dr George Rae, secretary of Newcastle and North Tyneside LMC, said: ‘I’m not against what pharmacies are doing, but this shows there is a lack of joined-up thinking. The checks are not so different from what we’re doing under the QOF.’

The health checks were successful in making recipients think about their health – with 65% of respondents to a questionnaire about the scheme saying they had since made changes to their lifestyle.

But Dr Stewart Findlay, treasurer of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society and a GP in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, warned pharmacists were being generously funded for only ‘partial’ checks, and GPs would be left with a ‘huge amount of work’.


‘If three-quarters of the people are being bounced back into general practice, and that is unfunded, then the vascular checks programme will fall apart,’ he said.