Great conversation here between Deeb D. Eid and Tim Frost about what I would call our regulatory "philosophy" in the profession of pharmacy and how that differs from most every other health profession.
I have long believed we need to move to standard of practice based regs as opposed to the highly (pardon the pun) prescriptive regulations that try to detail every thing pharmacists can and cannot do. Try and fail I might add, as in most states innovation is stymied as our doctorate level professionals can't figure out how to do anything new in a compliant manner. Many processes are so burdensome that board staff won't even try to tell you how to comply if asked...so no one does the thing the rules were intended to provide a framework for. Then we go to boards of pharmacy or legislatures to get approval that we shouldn't have to ask for in the first place.
Tim describes this so much better than me, but I'll paraphrase my favorite point he made on the podcast:
During the height of the COVID pandemic, when we were at our most vulnerable moments and patient safety was presumably more important than ever, the first government actions were to waive many regulations that were barriers to patient care. Supervision requirements, immunization rules, test&treat regs, and many more. Tim's point here was that if these things weren't needed for patient safety during a time of crisis, why are they needed at all? Wouldn't that flexibility be even more safely utilized when we're NOT in a crisis?
So many great points in this podcast. Couldn't agree more.
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Check out the amazing two part episode 4 with Tim Frost where he provides hot takes on a variety of topics including burden of proof!
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