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5 Ways to Better Counsel Patients with Cancer at Your Pharmacy

Digital Pharmacist

As the prevalence of cancer is continuing to increase, the role of the pharmacist becomes more important to help prevent any drug-drug interactions between these medications and chemotherapy and counseling patients on the proper use and appropriateness of certain OTC products. Vaccinations can be given before, during, and after chemotherapy.

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Realizing That A True Blameless Culture Corrects The System and Increases Medication Error Reporting

The Happy PharmD

At that time, he was the pharmacist responsible for providing a chemotherapy medication for one of the clinic patients. Until the first medication error occurred. One of my pharmacists reported that he had made a medication error over six months ago. So much the hospital’s system of just culture.