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PHARMACY TECHNICIANS

These people are the pharmacists helpers, sometimes part-time kids, who help fill prescriptions, and in 45 states no formal training is required to do these chores. Unfortunately, patients have died due to prescriptions being filled improperly with the wrong medications by pharmacists technicians. The pharmacist is supposed to double check each and every prescription that is filled by the technicians but deadly mistakes too often can and do happen! Critics charge that, on average, a pharmacist may be catching up to 6 mistakes a week by their technicians filling prescriptions with the wrong medications.

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: WTVJ TV NEWS 2/27/01

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