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Pharmacy Times Asks a Walgreens Pharmacist: What Hot Topics Have You Addressed This Month?
Chirag Patel, PharmD, a Walgreens pharmacist in Union, New Jersey, notes the hot topics Walgreens pharmacists have addressed throughout American Pharmacists Month.
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Chirag Patel, PharmD, a Walgreens pharmacist in Union, New Jersey, notes the hot topics Walgreens pharmacists have addressed throughout American Pharmacists Month.
“American Pharmacists Month, coincidently, falls during our busiest month of the year,” he says. “There’s 2 big focuses in the month. The first is flu shots…(and) another focus pharmacists have during October is…open enrollment for Medicare.”
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