>> My name is Daniel Orlovich, and I am a
staff pharmacist for Walgreens pharmacy.
Usually in retail pharmacy there's two shifts.
There's an opening shift, starts around 8 or 9
and then a closing shift
that starts around noon.
Depending on which shift you get, there's
different responsibilities but both
of them will share some common responsibilities.
First one being, a main staple of your day
is going to be verifying prescriptions.
So you'll go ahead and get the scrip from
the doctor, and it's a lot of cerebral work.
So to a bystander, they just think you're
standing there, but you'll go ahead
and check the patient's name, demographics,
you'll check the doctor's name and demographics.
Then you get into the interesting
things and that's the drug, drug doses,
refills, interactions, stuff like that.
That's called verification.
After you go ahead and do that you can go ahead
and do some filling or if you have technicians,
technicians can go ahead and fill for you.
After that, you'll go ahead and product review,
so you'll check to make sure that the medication
that says is supposed to
be in there is in there.
And this what you kind of do throughout the day.
Of course, you'll go ahead and talk to the
doctor's office, taking new prescriptions.
Then obviously, when you're in retail, you're
going to deal with people so people are going
to come up to the pharmacy
and ask you questions.
You'll field those questions.
Any time you need to consult
someone, you'll go ahead and do so.
So, the atmosphere at my company,
it really depends on where you work.
Just for example, if you work in a
very busy, urban city kind of store,
you have different insurance types, you'll have
different types of medications being filled,
whereas if you're more suburbia
or in a slower paced store,
you're going to have less
people helping you out.
Everyone's got you know, one liver,
or everyone's got high cholesterol,
but if you go into Chinatown, people
have different view on health.
If you go to the mission where
there's a lot of Latinos,
they have a different kind of view on health.
If you go to the North Beach, you
know, same type of medications
but how people perceive it
is a little bit different.
So it's great because you're standing in front
of you know, 2,000 drugs, but in reality,
when you're interacting with someone, you have
to kind of choose particular words or you have
to really figure out how to
sell that medication to them.