Kerr Drug Urges Patients to Know Your Pharmacist/Know Your Medicine During National Pharmacist Month

dBusinessNews
October 13, 2011

Did you know that in two out of every three visits to the doctor, a patient walks out of the office with a prescription? Or that 3.7 billion prescriptions were filled last year according to the Kaiser Family Foundation? Yet, three out of four Americans don’t follow directions when taking prescription medicines. 

That’s a prescription for serious health consequences, either because patients are not getting the therapeutic benefits from their medications or patients are dealing with health complications from drug interactions. So Kerr Drug is urging everyone to follow the theme of National Pharmacist Month in October: “Know Your Medicine/Know Your Pharmacist.”...

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