From: Andrea Wexler
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2017 7:18 AM
To: Chan, Michelle (DPH)
Subject: Would you add my comments to the suggestions?
I spent a great deal of time thinking of my suggestions to the Board of Pharmacy. As I am not that computer savvy, I don't know how to transfer that information to the link that you sent me. If you need my comments on this particular link, please forward them or cut and paste them to that particular website.
Unfortunately, I can't guarantee that I will be able to rewrite them on the link which you require the comments on. Although it would be a shame that my comments are overlooked, as I have spent many years working as a pharmacist. However, if people are really dedicated to improving the public health, I'm sure that someone would be willing to read the comments which I sent directly to the Board.
If the comments are overlooked because of my lack of computer skills, I will have to accept that as the willful negligence of others, especially white collar individuals, as this has been going on for many years. Members of the white collar working class have been exempting themselves from responsibility for approximately 50 years, this is not a new issue. I don't know how much longer, white collar professionals will be allowed to overlook dishonesty and willful criminality within their ranks. I can only hope that someday that the government catches up with criminal, college graduate, professionals. Highly paid, many years educated professionals have had the power to do immeasurable amounts of harm to the public with impunity. They hide behind their over rated expertise, giving their professions undeserved prestige, the image of respectability, unwarranted image of elevated knowledge by requiring many years of unnecessary, unproductive education
College education gives an undeserved prestige to professionals, which in turn often attracts financially motivate individuals, who put profit before public health. I look forward to the days when these overeducated, uncaring, irresponsible "professionals" are replaced by an accurate computer program which a person could use with much better results after one or two years of training. The professions that I am referring to are pharmacists, physicians, physical therapists, lawyers, amongothers.
From: Andrea Wexler
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2017 11:49 AM
To: Chan, Michelle (DPH)
Subject: "Self Sabotage" by pharmacists
During the course of my career as a pharmacist, I've encountered individuals, pharmacists, nursing, pharmacy managers, pharmacy staff who would seemingly deliberately make mistakes. I was astounded by this behavior and it didn't make sense to me. I even spoke to a nurse once, she was angry that she lost her license because she deliberately gave the patient too much medicine and the patient died. The Board of Nursing took away her license as they should have but years later she was still angry that they did so. It has since come to my attention that there are individuals who deliberately make mistakes. It is so common that it has been given a name by psychologists. Although this behavior is unknown to the average person, the Board of Pharmacy should recognize that this exists and pass a regulation that it is against pharmacy ethics for an individual to self sabotage. In other words, it is illegal for a pharmacists to deliberately make mistakes in a pharmacy, whether to sabotage themselves, their co workers, other their patients. That way everyone working in a pharmacy will know that this behavior exists, be able to name it and recognize when they see it. Also, individuals who are so inclined will be aware that this behavior is not allowed in the pharmacyprofession.