Home Forums Discussions Problems Digitek Recall and Search

With the recall of digitek, I searched AC and found I was also getting people come up who 1. have passed on and 2. who are no longer on the medication.

Is there a way to just get current users of medications when we are searching?

Digitek Info:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/573671 or
http://www.actavis.us/en/media+center/newsroom/articles/digitek+recall.htm

Thanks.

I am sorry, I posted this in the wrong thread.

I had one patient who could NOT for the life of him understand that digoxin and Digitek are the SAME THING. He said his pharmacy (local Rite Aid) simply told him that "Digitek was no longer being made."

These oversimplified explanations are very bothersome to me. I wish pharmacists new how easily patients get confused.

Adam, I agree.

I also wish they would inform patients when they are using a new version of a generic...we get so many calls from pts stating they got the wrong medication.

Sigh.

Oh you mean they should do their f'ing job??? We can't be bothered, we'll just let the poor overworked primary offices do it for us... Thankgoodness not all of them are like this. We have a few good ones and a few absolutely annoying and practicely useless ones....

Here here Paul. Good call!

Rite Aids around here are the absolute worst. They are not even considering pharmacies in my experience. They are literally nothing more than medication dispensing stations. When they don't have something in stock, they tell patient "no one makes that drug." What?!?! I tell my patients to go to our local pharamcy (a real pharmacy who makes compounded agents if requested). F**k Rite Aid, they are not good.