1-2 pharmacists employed at a time, overworked to the point of super fast turnover. Good pharmacists avg about 1-3 years, the rest burn out, gradually losing humanity each day until attitudes evolve from lackadaisical to apathetic to vaguely annoyed to downright hostile.
Oh, and that's when a patient is lucky. Otherwise a "floater" - trained by corporate to do a job titled "floater," which says it all. These individuals are incentivized to engage in very little earnest human interaction, let alone expertise, guidance, empathy or any other trait that might instill confidence. Most individuals requiring significant health care learn all too quickly that once viewed as anything short than a complete human being (a number, a digital profile, a voice on the phone demanding time/energy the pharmacist simply cannot muster), we are in danger.
The pharmacists used to make this Rite Aid my family's choice for quality care and service. Then, like Sisyphus pushing a bolder that would fall to the base of the hill each time, Rite Aid became one more corporation to endeaver to reach ever higher profit margins with no regard for the fact that, outside of an Escher painting, profits simply will not continue to increase indefinitely before a series of mild market corrections or extreme dives brings its metaphorical boulder crashing down. With this oblivious mindset, three regular pharmacists turned into two, and a third was never added again. One pharmacist works 12-15 hour shifts 5 days a week, with the second working 2 days in a row while the first takes two days off, then it reverses the next week.
I no longer trust anyone at this store with my health, and I therefore must dedicate time and energy I don't have to continuously researching drug interactions, side effects and dosage information so that I can attemp to keep up with changes of the medical knowledge base as scientifically gathered data becomes available. read more
