Episode 104 - Study Showed Chain Pharmacy is on the Brink with Dr. Beal and Dr. Clabaugh

Political Pharmacist Podcast

Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, two pharmacists were researching working conditions in pharmacy. While they largely found that working conditions across the field of pharmacy were not good, it was really bad in chain pharmacies. Now this is coming to a head as many chain pharmacies can't find staff and are doing everything they can to bring on new people, with little impact. Dr. Jenny Beal and Dr. Mercedes Clabaugh authored the research paper, "Perceptions of working conditions and safety concerns in community pharmacy" and did an amazing job! So much so that the American Pharmacists Association published in in their publication, Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. This dovetails with the #PizzaIsNotWorking movement that Dr. Tanoe covered last episode. Highly recommend you listen to both of these back to back, in either order You can find the paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1544319121002788 Follow Dr. Beal On Twitter here: @JenPharmDPhD (https://twitter.com/JenPharmDPhD) Follow Dr. Clabaugh here on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mercedes-clabaugh-pharmd-rph-14186516a/