Ray,
You are correct...but it is like the airplane pilot who has to be regulated on
the hours and job tasks ! We have no
check and balance system to evaluate our performance on # rxs versus hours
worked !!
We have done this to ourselves ! So lets get out of this rut by doing something
together for once in OUR HISTORY!!!
Greed..in the 1960 & 70 ..$$$....prevented us from establishing a professional
fee system!!BUT someone would cut this rate or this fee also !
James Earl Casey R.Ph.. jcasey@lynnspharmacy.com
P.S.Couple of sick in days over the U.S.A.(emergency rxs excluded) would wake
up AMERICA....CAN WE HAVE BROTHERHOOD !!!
Skinner, Raymond wrote:
> How can you expect to have good self-regulation when Registration Boards and
> Professional Societies are separated? The UK Royal Pharmaceutical Society
> and the Pharmaceutical Society of Western Australian (whose Council is a
> registering body) seem to be among the few truly 'professional' bodies
> around. How many other places, even within our disciplines, are as truly
> "self governing" as professions ought to be? How far has our
> professionalism been retarded and denigrated by our lack of demonstrated
> capability to take care of our own affairs in a thorough and public
> acceptable manner! If we were a proper and truly independent profession, and
> kept that publicly accountable (ie; we properly applied the idea of
> "corporate governance" ) we could be empowered to regulate all improper
> practice that threatens public safety. Well, one can hope!
>
> We need more lay reps on our registration and disciplinary
> Councils/Committees, and a lot more transparency in our various dealings to
> convince public or Government to even let us retain what professionalism we
> do have, let get back to what ought to have been there in the first place.
> Let's face it, most places got it wrong to start with, and self interest
> perpetuates those errors in its own cause. But what has this to do with
> Pharmaceutical Care - the forum in which these communications are appearing?
> This I suppose: that if you wish to have top standards you must have top
> backing by those responsible for governance and public accountability. If
> our professional activity were really valued, we'd have no problems getting
> support for the right kinds of professional control for the achievement of
> the highest public good.
>
> Ray Skinner
> Perth WA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Earl Casey [mailto:jcasey@lynnspharmacy.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2000 0:40
> To: PharmCare
> Subject: Re: Regulation of online Pharmacies
>
> Dear Joe,
> We must unite under a cause to help each other to battle the
> war of
> control...are
> we going to control us or is someone else will have
> to do the job!
> jcasey@lynnspharmacy.com
>
> JoeFLRPh@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Regulation of pharmacy pracice is controlled by
> individual states and must be
> > addressed by the respective boards of pharmacy.
> > Do you really want the Feds controlling your practice?
> Once they take hold
> > in one area, rest assured, they will insidiously attempt
> to control even more
> > areas they feel are "in the best interest" of the public
> to control.
> > Wouldn'y you feel insulted if the government came in and
> regulated what you
> > are fully capable of regulating on your own?
> > Just a thought.
> >
> > Joe Haynes, C.R.Ph.
> > joeflrph@aol.com
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