The Legal Drug Dealer Podcast
Getting Pharmacy as a profession Closer to The Patient
March 16, 2020
#14 Managing Chronic Diseases with your pharmacist
With Joy Eziaku, PharmD & Marilena Grittani, RPh
In this episode, you will have a better understanding of what clinical pharmacists do directly with the patient when they want or need help handling their chronic diseases, looking for the best results.
Dy Eziaku Joy Agawa, PharmD, is dedicating her professional life to help patients from all over the country (USA), educating, supporting, and adjusting the treatment of their chronic diseases.
Some of the main points discussed are:
- What is a chronic disease
- How a pharmacist can support patient treatment
- Why is it so important to have the triangle approach to your treatemn: doctor, patient, and pharmacist.
- Why are these services not covered by Medicare and most of the insurances
- What specific activities clinical pharmacists perform to help you with you chronic diseases treatments
- Among others.
“Basically, when a patient comes into the ICU, … the pharmacist was actually also part of the team. What I did there I review charts I went through each patient’s chart and looked at their medications and things that were critical as far as the rates of infusions…”
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