Archive for December 23rd, 2008

Chain Drug Review - Counseling is worth the effort

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. — Concern for patients is evident from the extensive counseling that pharmacists provide at the Wal-Mart store here. Arkansas state law requires counseling for all new prescriptions, and pharmacy manager Yolanda Jones says explaining medications to customers is well worth the effort.
There was, for example, the patient just out of the hospital with a prescription for a …