Posted On: October 26, 2007, 2:53 pm CDT

Posted By: lastbat

Why do you say that pharmacists should know drug interactions without the Merk index? With the thousand of drugs out there and the billions of possible interactions I would expect them to need the index. That's what it's there for, that's why Merk updates it regularly and that's why every pharmacists has one. I used to work for a food company and THEY had one in R&D to check for possible interactions with food additives (natural and organic company, but some things react with alcohol, vitamins and such). And why paw through hundreds of texts when the Merk gives it to you in one, albeit huge, book? Save the time and use the index.

This should have been caught, but I have to agree with Jason that you have pretty good odds with Walgreens. And I would say that even if it were my father or baby that was killed - though they wouldn't get my business again (for purely emotional reasons; and heck, they don't get my business now for purely financial reasons).