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Chain Drug Stores’ Dangerous Culture of Speed

The People's Pharmacy

Store level employees refer to these bosses as “the suits” in an effort to denigrate the fact that they are abso­lutely obsessed with productivity metrics like the speed with which prescriptions are filled. My own experience (after retirement) as a phar­macy customer: Why does it take so darn long to have a prescription filled?

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Three strategies for managing loss of exclusivity successfully

pharmaphorum

Between December 1, 2018 and January 31, 2019, 65% of erectile dysfunction prescriptions filled were for Viagra or its generic version 12. They employed hundreds of new salespeople to detail doctors and hospitals, spent millions on TV and magazine ads and handed out masses of free samples.