A couple of days ago I was watching the morning news on two different channels and saw the great job Walgreens is doing with marketing their Medication Therapy Management services in PR. In the Island, pharmacists have a very traditional look and patients tend to sponsor greatly the independent community pharmacies. They are trying to push this initiative and make people feel excited and learn about the greatness of MTM. As I was looking for more information on the topic, I found an article on The New York Times that shows this initiative is more like a nationwide campaign (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/business/at-walgreens-pharmacists-urged-to-mix-with-public.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=pharmacy&st=cse).
As a student, all I can say is that I hope all pharmacists, and the community in general, can benefit from Walgreens educational campaign. At the end it will result on improved medical outcomes and better quality of life for our patients.
I agree with you regarding to increase the patient’s awareness and educate the patients. Here this practice of MTM is not very common; however it gives us the opportunity to incorporate this strategy of patient education as future pharmacist. As stated in the article and quote: “What we are seeing now is pharmacists should be using their knowledge to help consumers manage their medications appropriately”. This is what we must strive as future pharmacist; to provide the best service we can to patients, by helping them to manage their different diseases states.
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ReplyDeleteI believe it will be difficult to incorporate MTM in Puerto Rico, because we are different from USA culture and we like to follow traditions. So Puerto Ricans thinks that this type of service should be done by physicians and not by a pharmacist. If you don’t believe me, just come and ask about the pharmacist role, people will say that we only dispense drugs at the drugs store. So the first thing that we have to do is to change people perspective about the role of a pharmacist and then we can offer our service.
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