CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants::Lawmakers want HHS to revise health privacy law to require warrants.
CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants::Lawmakers want HHS to revise health privacy law to require warrants.
This is bad, but around where I live, most of these pharmacies are helmed by teens just old enough to work there. I’d imagine many younger people in these positions would just do what the cops are asking: Cuz they aren’t paid to think, insufficient training, they just wanna get the day over. They deal enough with crazy customers as it is, let alone the hastle from cops. And if their policy of just let the shoplifters walk, why would it be different for cops?
Don’t you need a degree to work at a pharmacy?
Often, there will only be one pharmacist and everyone else will be pharma techs. I think it depends on your state what education the techs need to have. But there are definitely just certification programs (less than a year long) rather than full blown degrees for it.
Edit: https://www.stepful.com/post/pharmacy-technician-license-requirements-by-state
Some states just require a high school diploma/GED.
In Europe you do
Whoops, by helmed, I meant most of the customer facing techs. Not the actual pharmacist.
I got on-the-job training to be a pharmacy tech at a Walgreens while I was in college. My state required that you be licensed at the national and state level, but it was just a test and some continuing education credits.
My current state doesn’t require either, so the techs are definitely skewed younger. Thankfully I finished college and work elsewhere now so I can only guess at their ages but teenagers seems accurate.