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Speaker 1: Accessia Health, a national charitable patient assistance organization, is dedicated
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Speaker 1: to eliminating healthcare barriers for those with rare or chronic
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Speaker 1: health conditions through personalized case management, financial assistance, education, and
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Speaker 1: legal support. The organization provides more than copay relief. It
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Speaker 1: delivers a full spectrum of services that address the real
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Speaker 1: costs of care. Founded by patients. For patients, Excessia Health
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Speaker 1: helps cover essential expenses like insurance premiums, diagnostic testing, counseling
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Speaker 1: and therapy services, travel, and more. Their inclusive outcomes focused
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Speaker 1: approach supports people throughout their health care journey. Learn how
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Speaker 1: Excessia Health is closing gaps in care and improving lives
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Speaker 1: across the country. Visit excessiahealth dot org. Today.
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Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to twerks. I am your host, Todd Urie,
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Speaker 2: founder of the Pharmacy Podcast Network. It is a big
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Speaker 2: day here at the PPN. I'm excited to be here.
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Speaker 2: There's so much going on. We have Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 2: We have a discussion with Tiara Green, who is the
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Speaker 2: president of the Access Excessia Health Team. I've worked with
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Speaker 2: him over the years at the ASSEMBIA conference as well
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Speaker 2: as the NASP, the National Association of Specialty Pharmacies. Shout
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Speaker 2: out to Sheila Arquett and their team over at the NSP.
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Speaker 2: We're going to be talking about patients without insurance and
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Speaker 2: how that's just a detriment to.
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Speaker 3: Therapy.
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Speaker 2: We're also going to be jumping in to the twenty
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Speaker 2: four day Challenge, part of the thirty Day thirty one
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Speaker 2: day Challenge for the Pharmacist Challenge month by doctor Jesse McCalla.
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Speaker 2: And then we're gonna be talking with Mike Johnston from
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Speaker 2: the NPTA, he's the CEO of the NPTA, about meaningful
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Speaker 2: recognition in World Pharmacist Technician Day all on twerks. Hey there,
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Speaker 2: Todd you are you over here at the p how's
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Speaker 2: your day been going, how's your week? What's been going on?
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Speaker 2: We just got back from the NCPA in New Orleans.
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Speaker 2: That was an amazing gathering of independent community pharmacist entrepreneurs
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Speaker 2: surviving in such a volatile time in the history of pharmacy,
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Speaker 2: the history of independent pharmacy, the history of community pharmacy,
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Speaker 2: and how the collapse of so many chain pharmacies, including
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Speaker 2: write Aid, this is putting a crazy amount of pressure
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Speaker 2: on our healthcare system and our communities. Not having access
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Speaker 2: to pharmacies and their communities. So NCPA shout out to you.
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Speaker 2: You did an amazing job for the event twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five bringing people together. We're going to have
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Speaker 2: a post show it's going to talk all about that.
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Speaker 2: Today's episode, Today's Tworks is brought to you by Excessia Health.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, we're gonna be talking with Tiara, very
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Speaker 2: excited to be working with them, bringing us some update
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Speaker 2: on financial as systems for patients. We are going to
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Speaker 2: get into that. We'd like to get into some twerks
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Speaker 2: News first and kind of excited about we're leveling up
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Speaker 2: with some of our news programs, our collaborations and up
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Speaker 2: first in Twerks News.
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Speaker 4: And now for this week in pharmacy News, we have
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Speaker 4: a story from Pharmacy Times titled new Access program target
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Speaker 4: It's women's menopause therapy costs. A newly launched access initiative
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Speaker 4: for Linquid seeks to ease the cost burden for women
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Speaker 4: receiving the dual neurokine in one three antagonist treatment from
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Speaker 4: moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause. The program
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Speaker 4: aims to provide savings resources and support for those lacking
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Speaker 4: adequate coverage. The therapy developed by bay or Ag represents
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Speaker 4: one of the first non hormonal options in this space,
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Speaker 4: and the access program reflects growing focus on bridging affordability
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Speaker 4: gaps in women's health. Key takeaway for pharmacy teams, new
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Speaker 4: protocols and patient education tools may be required to guide
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Speaker 4: eligible patients through assistance, eligibility, and cost saving pathways. Read
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Speaker 4: the full article over at Pharmacy Times.
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Speaker 5: Next from drug Stores News, national study pharmacies can close
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Speaker 5: care gaps and cut employer costs. A new report from
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Speaker 5: the Health Action Alliance, commissioned by the National Association of
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Speaker 5: Chain drug Stores, finds that pharmacy based care holds significant
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Speaker 5: potential for employer health strategies. According to the study, eighty
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Speaker 5: nine percent of US employees believe pharmacy delivered care is positive.
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Speaker 5: Seventy one percent believe it would improve their health outcomes,
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Speaker 5: Yet many employers remain unaware of the full range of
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Speaker 5: clinical services community pharmacies can provide. The report suggests that
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Speaker 5: integrating pharmacy services more fully into employer health plans could
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Speaker 5: reduce costs, improve access, and address workforce health demands for
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Speaker 5: independent and chain pharmacies. This signals an opportunity to position
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Speaker 5: pharmacy teams as care delivery partners with employers beyond dispensing.
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Speaker 5: Up next on Torque's news from openpr wellness clinics and
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Speaker 5: pharmacy partnerships emerging in the peptide space. Research peptide supplier
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Speaker 5: the licensed wellness clinic sector. These alliances will enable pharmacies
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Speaker 5: to offer higher purity peptide formulations under compliant frameworks supporting
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Speaker 2: Hey shout out to Brad Gallagher met up with him
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Speaker 2: at the NCPA twenty twenty five did an interview, so
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Speaker 2: you'd be listening to his interview upcoming on the show
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Speaker 2: Peptides and what that means for your cash flow, what
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Speaker 2: that means for clients, customers in your community looking for
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Speaker 2: that therapy. You know as well as I do, that
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Speaker 2: they're doctor googling things and that's probably not the best
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Speaker 2: way of accessing information. I think that's a good start
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Speaker 2: that at least they're familiar with things, but I'm hoping
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Speaker 2: that they're coming to physician pharmacists. More about that.
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Speaker 6: Continuing with the news.
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Speaker 5: Today's last work's news story is from WWLP twenty two
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Speaker 5: news from Boston. A recent study shows alarming drop in
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Speaker 5: pharmacy access in Massachusetts. A Massachusetts study highlights alarmingly decreased
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Speaker 5: pharmacy access in the base date. A report by University
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Speaker 5: of California, Berkeley and other researchers revealed a troubling decline
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Speaker 5: in pharmacy access. Multiple closures have left parts of Massachusetts
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Speaker 5: facing real pharmacy deserts, particularly in underserved communities. This trend
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Speaker 5: underscores the growing importance of community pharmacies as local access
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Speaker 5: points for medications and care, raising questions for independent pharmacy, viability,
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Speaker 5: reimbursement models, and advocacy. Thanks for listening to Tork's news
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Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for listening to Twark's news. If you want
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Speaker 2: to be part of this publication, we are looking for
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Speaker 2: experts in different segments that can bring us up to
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Speaker 2: date information for the rest of the profession. Really sharing
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Speaker 2: with each other, growing with each other and what that means.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: We cannot wait for you to hear our interview with
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Speaker 2: Tiara A. Green, President of excessi Health coming up next. Hey,
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Speaker 2: special segment of twerks this Week in Pharmacy. I'd like
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Speaker 2: to welcome two of my friends. Met them through the
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Speaker 2: specialty pharmacy sector, but they are here on twerks. Tiara
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Speaker 2: Green and Jennifer Noonan from Excessia Health. Welcome to this
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Speaker 2: Week in Pharmacy.
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Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you for having us. Good to be here.
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Speaker 8: Thanks Todd, It's great to see you.
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Speaker 2: I know we only get to run each other run
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Speaker 2: into each other at conferences, so I'm glad you took time.
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Speaker 2: I'm on the Weekly show, and this has been a
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Speaker 2: crazy week. We just got back from the NCPA. It's Friday,
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Speaker 2: so I'm hoping the Steelers are going to do a
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Speaker 2: little bit better this weekend. I don't know if you
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Speaker 2: guys are watching any.
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Speaker 7: NFL or not, but go Giants.
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Speaker 6: The Giants.
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Speaker 2: They actually did good last week up to the last minute.
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Speaker 7: I think lost in the last few seconds. But that's okay.
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Speaker 7: We'll make a comeback, all right.
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Speaker 5: What about you, Jennifer.
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Speaker 8: I like the snacks that go along with the season.
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Speaker 2: You can't how about that snacks? Absolutely. We have some
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Speaker 2: news to share with the listener. If you have ever
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Speaker 2: heard of Excessia Health doing some absolutely amazing work. Met
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Speaker 2: the team through being in this specially pharmacy space. We've
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Speaker 2: met at the ASSEMBIA events, We've met at the NASP events,
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Speaker 2: but you're making national headlines for what help you're extending
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Speaker 2: to people that are in desperate need of medication funding.
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Speaker 2: And I was very proud to see, since we've been
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Speaker 2: talking with you guys for now for over two years,
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Speaker 2: that we just had a news release come out in
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Speaker 2: September thirtieth and twenty twenty five and The headline said,
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Speaker 2: Excessia Health expands leadership team launches an advisory council to
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Speaker 2: advance person centered mission. The reason why this excites me
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Speaker 2: is because when you start partnering with other people, it's
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Speaker 2: really expanding your network, especially when they understand the intricacy
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Speaker 2: and the complexity and how horrible it is to not
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Speaker 2: have funding for medications that are desperately needed. Tiara, talk
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Speaker 2: to us about your new council.
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Speaker 7: First, I have to say we are very excited to
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Speaker 7: get these up and running, and I'll start by talking
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Speaker 7: about the Medical Advisory Council. This is something that we've
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Speaker 7: been talking about and are excited to launch because we
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Speaker 7: are really seeking medical professionals who can help guide us
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Speaker 7: and provide recommendations to our board of directors to ensure
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Speaker 7: that as an organization, we're remaining at the forefront of
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Speaker 7: these advances in healthcare. Every time you turn around, there
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Speaker 7: is a new therapy that is available. Now we're talking
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Speaker 7: about AI and its use in healthcare, and we want
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Speaker 7: to consider those items when we think about our potential offerings.
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Speaker 7: We are looking for members right now. Actually, the Medical
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Speaker 7: Advisory Council will consist of about three to seven members
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Speaker 7: and they'll work closely with GIN. But we're hoping to
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Speaker 7: have some practicing physicians, some pharmacies, and other experts in
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Speaker 7: the healthcare area to work with us on this council.
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Speaker 7: So in addition to that, we have our Patient Advocacy Committee,
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Speaker 7: and this is a relaunch for us, really exciting. They'll
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Speaker 7: be working very closely with GIN again, and in order
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Speaker 7: for us to remain person centered, it's important that we
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Speaker 7: talk to the people. Right, We've talked to individuals with
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Speaker 7: rare and chronic conditions to understand their journey and make
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Speaker 7: sure that we are being mindful of that when we
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Speaker 7: are implementing our programs and providing services to them. So
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Speaker 7: both voices are very important in the grand scheme of
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Speaker 7: things and important as we push our mission forward.
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Speaker 2: Jennifer, you and I have talked before. There's a richness
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Speaker 2: that comes with understanding things from a nurse perspective, and
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Speaker 2: then you fused some of your experiences, most of your
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Speaker 2: experiences in your life now with the pharmacy space. Can
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Speaker 2: you open up about this Patient Advocacy Committee and some
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Speaker 2: of your ideas and leveraging the expertise that will be
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Speaker 2: pulled through the committee.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so I feel like this ties back to how
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Speaker 8: you and I met when I think about how I
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Speaker 8: often tie in my relationship or our relationship is an
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Speaker 8: organization within specialty pharmacy. When we think about the need
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Speaker 8: for individuals to have help with that access gap, right,
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Speaker 8: it's because these treatments, as Tierra just mentioned, are coming quickly,
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Speaker 8: which is amazing, but they're also coming with a pretty
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Speaker 8: big price tag due to the amount of research intolopment
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Speaker 8: that has gone into the creation of those and so
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Speaker 8: first and foremost, we can't know all of the things
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Speaker 8: about all of those rare diseases, and as we know,
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Speaker 8: the patients and their families are typically the most informed
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Speaker 8: expert in the group when you're talking about a rare disease.
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Speaker 8: So bringing a medical advisory council together that can help
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Speaker 8: us with their specialties be able to really look and
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Speaker 8: drive down on the clinical side and the medical side,
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Speaker 8: what do these diseases do when they impact a person,
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Speaker 8: and how can we make sure we're including treatments in
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Speaker 8: our programs or funding in our programs that will help
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Speaker 8: with those gaps. But then in addition to that, those
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Speaker 8: providers who are familiar with the science part aren't necessarily
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Speaker 8: familiar with the lived experience piece, And I think if
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Speaker 8: anything I've learned over the years, it's that the times
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Speaker 8: I make the biggest mistake or find that somebody maybe
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Speaker 8: didn't get everything that they needed in their care, it
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Speaker 8: came from times when we were in a rush and
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Speaker 8: we didn't actually listen to the patient and ask them
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Speaker 8: what it was that they needed. So I feel like
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Speaker 8: the advisory committee with the medical professionals helping make sure
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Speaker 8: that our programs are structured in a way that is
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Speaker 8: inclusive of all of the disease. But we also have
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Speaker 8: patients now that are sitting at the table with us
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Speaker 8: and helping us understand exactly what it looks like in
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Speaker 8: one area of the country versus another, in an age
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Speaker 8: group versus a different age group, what do those experiences
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Speaker 8: look like, so that we as support people can help
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Speaker 8: make sure we're touching on all those important parts that
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Speaker 8: maybe aren't covered by health insurance or even thought of
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Speaker 8: by other support areas.
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Speaker 2: You know, the outreach, but both of you are intensely
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Speaker 2: You're out there. You're at the conferences I see you at,
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Speaker 2: other mixing into other care providers of pharmacists. Obviously my favorite,
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Speaker 2: but I don't get to go to some of the
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Speaker 2: other ones that you're going to. Another aspect of your
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Speaker 2: commitment is to is to educate the public, and Excess
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Speaker 2: your Health was featured in a segment for the public specifically,
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Speaker 2: and Tiara, you did an excellent job with this. Would
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Speaker 2: you share this with our listeners if they didn't get
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Speaker 2: to see this.
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Speaker 7: This was yes, yes, that would say. Segment with Virginia
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Speaker 7: this morning, had an opportunity to sit down with them
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Speaker 7: and talk about the work that we're doing here in
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Speaker 7: the organization. So, and for your listeners who may not
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Speaker 7: be familiar, EXCESSI your Health is a national charitable assistance
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Speaker 7: organization who helps individuals with rare and chronic conditions access care.
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Speaker 7: And sometimes it means helping to pay for their medications.
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Speaker 7: Sometimes it means paying for their health insurance premiums. But
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Speaker 7: we also have to educate individuals on the resources that
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Speaker 7: are available. And so I joined Virginia this morning to
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Speaker 7: talk about the work that we are doing in the
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Speaker 7: organization but also some of these struggles that individuals are
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Speaker 7: having with paying for their health insurance premiums, and that
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Speaker 7: has been an ongoing discussion and concern for many people
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Speaker 7: who are receiving advanced premium tax credits that may go
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Speaker 7: away as of January. So this is important work that
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Speaker 7: we're doing in that we want to make sure that
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Speaker 7: people can make informed healthcare decisions when they are looking
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Speaker 7: at their health insurance plans, when they're talking to their physicians,
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Speaker 7: and when they're advocating for themselves. That's the biggest thing.
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Speaker 7: They have to be able to advocate for the care
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Speaker 7: that they need and deserve.
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Speaker 2: I love it. I love the fact that we can
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Speaker 2: get in front of news organizations to get the information
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Speaker 2: out and then as much as we can rinse and
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Speaker 2: repeat that, and it's the public of how they can
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Speaker 2: get these funds because I mean, I don't know. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the insurance is one of the most complex things in
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Speaker 2: the United States, and it's unfortunate that it's as complex
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Speaker 2: it as is. So having excess your health will be
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Speaker 2: a resource. That word out is so important.
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Speaker 7: I would agree if we were to look at just
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Speaker 7: a website on health insurance terms, there will be many
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Speaker 7: of us who will have questions. So I can only
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Speaker 7: imagine if someone doesn't have a healthcare background trying to
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Speaker 7: navigate that space.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I've been in the business for twenty
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Speaker 2: two years and now our PBMs actually something that I
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Speaker 2: can sit there and describe, and it's taken a long
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Speaker 2: time because it's a moving piece. And that's another reason
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Speaker 2: that Excess your Health is so important is because of
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Speaker 2: the debacle and the craziness of demystifying our PBM issues
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Speaker 2: that we're having in the United States.
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Speaker 7: Yes, it's it's all alphabet suit PBMs and ATPs and.
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Speaker 6: Abc D, e fgs.
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Speaker 2: Those are the words. All right, Listen, listeners pharmacists out there,
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Speaker 2: especially any pharmacists that have been in disease state management,
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Speaker 2: or you're getting into deeper into your consultancy with seniors
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Speaker 2: or really anything, let your patients know, Let your people
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Speaker 2: know about accessia health. Go to accessia health dot org.
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Speaker 2: Once again, that's eccessia health dot org. It'll describe the
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Speaker 2: financial assistance, the educational resources, and the provider resources in
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Speaker 2: reaching out to this team. Also, if you're going to
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Speaker 2: be at a conference that ACCESSI is going to be
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Speaker 2: outreached out to the Pharmacy Podcast Network. We'd like to
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Speaker 2: schedule time for multi organizations to come together as the
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Speaker 2: partners that you've developed here we could really drill down
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Speaker 2: into into how you're working together. Give us an example,
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Speaker 2: by the way of an organization that would like to
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Speaker 2: get involved, how do they work with excessiet Health.
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Speaker 8: I'm going to answer that one, Todd. We've been working
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Speaker 8: on amping up efforts on building out a more robust
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Speaker 8: and defined partnership or way that we can continue to
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Speaker 8: collaborate with other groups, and we have a few different
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Speaker 8: levels of ways that folks can get involved with us.
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Speaker 8: We work directly with advocacy organizations that support the same
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Speaker 8: patients that we support, and those are our allies. So
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Speaker 8: we love to group together with those folks that represent
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Speaker 8: disease areas. This is still being built out. There are
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Speaker 8: quite a few more individual advocacy groups as well as
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Speaker 8: larger national organizations that are supportive like in ASP and
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Speaker 8: National Health Counsel. When we think about organizations that support
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Speaker 8: a large group or network of stakeholders that are in
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Speaker 8: this same pathway that our patients are, there's a partnership
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Speaker 8: interest form that people can fill out and we can
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Speaker 8: set up a time to talk and just go over
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Speaker 8: what some of those things are. These are not partnerships
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Speaker 8: where we ask you for money or exchange funds. It's
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Speaker 8: more of a help share each other's information out, but
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Speaker 8: most importantly it's about getting those shared resources to the
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Speaker 8: patients directly.
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Speaker 7: So we would love for.
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Speaker 8: Anyone that's interested in that, so please reach out. And additionally,
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Speaker 8: we can and do all the time meet and talk
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Speaker 8: with specialty pharmacies that serve patients that have any kind
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Speaker 8: of rare and complex health condition that might fall under
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Speaker 8: our umbrella. We'd be happy to just provide an overview
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Speaker 8: to help those providers understand how they can hook their
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Speaker 8: patients up with different charitable organizations and get help for
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Speaker 8: bridging those gaps and getting their medications.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for calling that out for partnerships, we do
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Speaker 2: a ton of work with multiple organizations that once again
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Speaker 2: they may be so busy they don't know about it.
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Speaker 2: So hoping that this Twerks will reach the right ears
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Speaker 2: and they can reach out to excess your health. Jennifer
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Speaker 2: and Tiara, thanks so much for being part of today's show.
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Speaker 6: I really appreciate you guys.
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Speaker 7: Thanks for having us, Thanks for having us.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll be right back with more twerks. Hey everyone,
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Speaker 2: it's Todd Urie with the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
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Speaker 6: I could not be more excited to.
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Speaker 2: Talk to you that we're going to be doing the
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Speaker 2: Surecast with sure Cost at the Insights User Conference on
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Speaker 2: November thirteenth and fourteenth. I'm going to be part of
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Speaker 2: this event. I cannot wait to meet with you, talk
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Speaker 2: with you, leverage data together, learn how to use data better.
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Speaker 2: And it's going to be an incredible opportunity to connect
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Speaker 2: with other pharmacy owners and innovators colleagues who are all
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Speaker 2: working together for the same goal helping pharmacies thrive. And
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Speaker 2: what better way to capture those conversations than a live
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Speaker 2: event that's sure Cast and I can't wait to bring
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Speaker 2: this to you, sit down with so many of you.
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Speaker 2: This is going to be in Nashville, don't forget on
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Speaker 2: November thirteenth through fourteenth, and there will be a lenk
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Speaker 2: to go to the registration and we'll see you there.
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Speaker 3: Hello everyone, and welcome back to the thirty one Day
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Speaker 3: American Pharmacist Month Challenge. I'm your host Jesse McCullough, and
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Speaker 3: today I have a very special guest, Todd Yuri Todd.
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Speaker 3: It is so good to have you finally on the
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Speaker 3: thirty one day Challenge. How are you doing today, Todd.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. It's Friday, it's time to tworks.
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Speaker 9: It is.
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Speaker 6: We're here, We're back.
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Speaker 2: It's so good to see you. Thank you so much
23:22
Speaker 2: for all of your support lately. You've been a leader
23:25
Speaker 2: in our first veterans focused conference that we just got
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Speaker 2: done with. We're going to continue to mature that shout
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Speaker 2: out to you and just your giving of your time
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Speaker 2: for sure. And then hey, thanks for putting this challenges together.
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Speaker 2: This has been so much fun to watch and to
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Speaker 2: use as a way to honor our pharmacist and pharmacy professionals.
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Speaker 6: So this has been great.
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Speaker 3: You know, it has been fun and it's also been
23:48
Speaker 3: there's been a little bit of terror that goes along
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Speaker 3: with it as well, in all honesty, but you know,
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Speaker 3: it's the idea comes to you and you say, hey,
23:56
Speaker 3: what can I do with it? And I said, you know,
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Speaker 3: I was just telling you before we hit we started
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Speaker 3: to record. It's relatively a short timeline that I was
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Speaker 3: working with here, But whenever I said I need to
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Speaker 3: do this challenge, I thought I need to get Todd on.
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Speaker 3: And so for the very few people that may not
24:13
Speaker 3: know who Todd is, Todd, would you just mind giving.
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Speaker 3: You know, the thirty second background of the wonderful work
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Speaker 3: you do in pharmacy, even though you are not a pharmacist.
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Speaker 2: That's true, not a pharmacist, big pharmacist fan. Understand the
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Speaker 2: value of pharmacists in so many sectors we cover, you know,
24:30
Speaker 2: And I've been around doing podcasting for sixteen years. I've
24:33
Speaker 2: been in pharmacy for about twenty two years. Started in technology,
24:37
Speaker 2: and boy and that taught me through reporting just how
24:41
Speaker 2: impactful I could see things changing in patients' lives watching
24:45
Speaker 2: the you know, the consultancy and the dial in and
24:49
Speaker 2: you know, when we started in long term care.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm a big fan.
24:53
Speaker 2: So I use all of my experiences and all of
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Speaker 2: my gifts and my network to do nothing but boost
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Speaker 2: our pharmacists voice.
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Speaker 3: And I cannot thank you enough for what you have
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Speaker 3: done to help support pharmacists over the years. And it's
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Speaker 3: really cool to see all the things that are starting
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Speaker 3: to come to fruition here as well, not the least
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Speaker 3: of which is the work you're doing with veterans, as
25:16
Speaker 3: you mentioned just a moment ago. But when I had
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Speaker 3: the idea for this challenge, you know, the idea was, well, hey,
25:25
Speaker 3: thirty one days. How hard can that be? And the
25:27
Speaker 3: answer is it can be very hard. And I quickly
25:30
Speaker 3: had to I had to quickly look for some help.
25:32
Speaker 3: But you were actually one of the people I thought
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Speaker 3: of first. I'm like, I need to get Todd on
25:36
Speaker 3: because I'm sure Todd would have a good challenge to
25:39
Speaker 3: share with my pharmacy colleagues from coast to coast. So, Todd,
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Speaker 3: do you have a you have a challenge you want
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Speaker 3: to share with us today?
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Speaker 6: I really do.
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Speaker 2: I want people that are listening to this and people
25:49
Speaker 2: that are connected to your network, Jesse, to support people
25:53
Speaker 2: that are putting their own time into building some of
25:57
Speaker 2: the best content I've ever come across in the entire
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Speaker 2: healthcare system. And that is the the hosts that are
26:03
Speaker 2: that are giving of their time and of their of
26:06
Speaker 2: their own uh, you know, expertise, and they're putting this
26:10
Speaker 2: content out on the pharmacy podcast network. I would just
26:13
Speaker 2: challenge everyone to pick one show that you can find,
26:17
Speaker 2: whether that's Jenna Quinn, or it's our specialty pharmacists that
26:21
Speaker 2: are out there, or it's you know, a more functional
26:24
Speaker 2: pharmacy podcast. But I want you to pick a podcast.
26:27
Speaker 2: Tamara Ruguls is constantly on talking about seniors.
26:30
Speaker 6: So go pick a podcast.
26:32
Speaker 2: Daniel Plummer with Maternal RX. I want you to listen
26:35
Speaker 2: to it. I want you to subscribe to it. But
26:37
Speaker 2: more than that, reach out to those people that are
26:39
Speaker 2: putting of their own time out. And these people don't
26:43
Speaker 2: make any money. Sometimes we get some sponsorships, sometimes we don't,
26:48
Speaker 2: uh and and and it's still a way for them
26:50
Speaker 2: to advance their study, their experiences. Really, Jesse, it's an
26:55
Speaker 2: audio journal of sorts. It's not exactly journal yet, although
26:59
Speaker 2: that's coming. That's evidence based podcasting is coming, but it's
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Speaker 2: really it's very very special. So this network has grown
27:08
Speaker 2: over the years. We have forty two shows. Now we
27:11
Speaker 2: have more than thirty five participating pharmacists to really put
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Speaker 2: a lot of time in a quality time, quality study,
27:19
Speaker 2: and then they're giving of their insights and it's helping
27:23
Speaker 2: to drive us forward because that's you know, if I
27:25
Speaker 2: think of what's happening out in the markets we just
27:28
Speaker 2: got back from NCPA, this is changing community pharmacy, it's
27:32
Speaker 2: changing access to healthcare, and those stories have to be told.
27:38
Speaker 2: So I'm using our network that has over eighty thousand,
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Speaker 2: you know, downloads per month and thousands and thousands of
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Speaker 2: subscribers to use this network to get out what's happening
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Speaker 2: in pharmacy. And this isn't about me. It's about empowering
27:54
Speaker 2: each other and helping each other. So my challenge is
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Speaker 2: subscribe to the Pharmacy Podcast Network.
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Speaker 6: But I want you to pick a podcas cast.
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Speaker 2: I want you to reach out to that host, whether
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Speaker 2: that be linked in or if you know their email
28:05
Speaker 2: might be in some of the show notes, and just
28:07
Speaker 2: tell them, hey, I listened to your show and I
28:09
Speaker 2: think you know I like it, or just encourage them
28:12
Speaker 2: and and and helped.
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Speaker 6: Us to move forward.
28:14
Speaker 2: And by the way, if you're listening and you want
28:16
Speaker 2: a podcast, reach out to me because if you have
28:18
Speaker 2: a specialty that we're not covering, we're searching for oncology,
28:22
Speaker 2: we're searching for mental health, we're searching for cannabis medicine
28:27
Speaker 2: and leveraging that so psychedelics.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, it's a shout out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I will tell you it doesn't matter
28:34
Speaker 3: what area of pharmacy you practice in, you can find
28:37
Speaker 3: something that will add value to you on the Pharmacy
28:41
Speaker 3: Podcast Network. And to your point, you have you have
28:45
Speaker 3: hosts that cover a wide range, but also to your
28:50
Speaker 3: just to your last comment, there's still there's still a
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Speaker 3: few more, right, And that's that's actually how you and
28:54
Speaker 3: I connected. I said, hey, Todd, you're you're out here,
28:57
Speaker 3: You're you're promoting folks and these are absolutely the leaders
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Speaker 3: in the pharmacy profession. But we need to talk about
29:03
Speaker 3: how do we how do we create more leaders in
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Speaker 3: the pharmacy profession as well. So it's, uh, it's really
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Speaker 3: an exciting time for that. So uh, as I understand it.
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Speaker 3: The challenge is, uh, for those of you that are
29:15
Speaker 3: that are partaking in this challenge, go to your podcast app,
29:20
Speaker 3: find the Pharmacy Podcast Network. I'm gonna encourage you to
29:22
Speaker 3: subscribe to the main feed, but then also more specifically,
29:26
Speaker 3: you can you can subscribe to the individual podcast. Is
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Speaker 3: that correct, Todd?
29:30
Speaker 6: That is correct.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have Apple Spotify's our main feeds. But if
29:35
Speaker 2: you go search for Daniel Plumber Maternal RX, you'll find
29:40
Speaker 2: their podcast. We were building a new website to make
29:43
Speaker 2: that a lot easier for our listeners to start finding
29:46
Speaker 2: the individual show. That'll come out before the end of
29:48
Speaker 2: the year, but for right now, just do a Google
29:51
Speaker 2: search search find someone that you know, Jenna Quinn, Tamar Aruguls,
29:55
Speaker 2: Daniel Plumber, you know so many of them have participated.
29:59
Speaker 2: And then Associations ACP just started a brand new ap
30:04
Speaker 2: APC Alliance for Pharmacy. Compounding just started the only podcast
30:08
Speaker 2: on the network that is dialing into how compounding is
30:12
Speaker 2: number one under threat because of things that are happening
30:15
Speaker 2: in legislation, and then number two, how it's growing and
30:18
Speaker 2: how it's an opportunity for pharmacists to do things that
30:22
Speaker 2: are a little bit different and empower their independent community
30:26
Speaker 2: pharmacy or whatever your sector your specialty is. And yeah,
30:31
Speaker 2: just support the network as the network definitely supports you,
30:34
Speaker 2: and if you have a podcast, we would love to
30:37
Speaker 2: help you boost your word and tie you into.
30:39
Speaker 6: This network because that's really about what it's about.
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Speaker 2: We've seen so many things come out of the network
30:44
Speaker 2: where pharmacists work together and businesses work together, and it.
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Speaker 6: Has nothing then to do with us.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I hand the baton off to the
30:52
Speaker 2: next innovator or the next opportunity and people run with it.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, this is this is a fantastic lenge. Very
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Speaker 3: much appreciate the work that you've done so far. I
31:03
Speaker 3: appreciate all you know, I'll even shout out to all
31:06
Speaker 3: those hosts and all those countless hours and who knows
31:09
Speaker 3: how many edits that go through with with all that,
31:14
Speaker 3: So thank you to all of those, all those contributors
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Speaker 3: to the network. But Challenger, I want to encourage you.
31:20
Speaker 3: Go go find your podcast app, make sure you've subscribed
31:24
Speaker 3: to the Pharmacy Podcast Network, and you know, it's amazing
31:28
Speaker 3: how you will begin to expand your awareness even in
31:31
Speaker 3: areas that you I mean, you may find new areas
31:34
Speaker 3: that you didn't even know existed. That's the wonderful part
31:36
Speaker 3: of it, Todd. Before we wrap up, anything else you
31:39
Speaker 3: want to add to the conversation today, my friend.
31:41
Speaker 6: No, let's remember each other.
31:44
Speaker 2: Let's remember just just reach out to each other once
31:46
Speaker 2: in a while.
31:46
Speaker 6: This is not an easy business to be in.
31:49
Speaker 2: It's not easy to make money at something that's never
31:52
Speaker 2: been there in the existence.
31:54
Speaker 6: You're building something from scratch.
31:56
Speaker 2: Shout out to our entrepreneurs that are out there that
31:58
Speaker 2: are pharmacists wanting to build businesses. If there's any way
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Speaker 2: I can ever help you giving you advice on public
32:04
Speaker 2: relations or marketing. And I'm not even saying to you know,
32:08
Speaker 2: get involved or use this. But I love talking to
32:11
Speaker 2: pharmacists and most of the time I'll turn it into
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Speaker 2: a podcast, so you might end up on the you
32:15
Speaker 2: might end up on this week in pharmacy.
32:17
Speaker 3: There you go, there you go. All right, folks, we'll
32:20
Speaker 3: move in to wrap up for today's challenge. You know
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Speaker 3: how we do this. You know how we do this.
32:24
Speaker 3: I remind you at the end of each challenge that
32:26
Speaker 3: this challenge is not just for you. I want to
32:28
Speaker 3: encourage you to take this challenge, share it with at
32:31
Speaker 3: least two of your colleagues, the two other colleagues, get
32:33
Speaker 3: them involved in the challenge. And because we all get
32:36
Speaker 3: better when we each get better. And so go out there,
32:39
Speaker 3: complete this challenge, and we'll see you back here tomorrow
32:42
Speaker 3: with our next challenge. Have a great day, Have a
32:45
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Speaker 2: Hey and on this week in pharmacy, guess what happened
34:16
Speaker 2: all of those the champions of our pharmacist I love pharmacists,
34:20
Speaker 2: my favorite provider. But for you pharmacists out there, everybody
34:23
Speaker 2: knows who's holding the ship up in your organization and
34:29
Speaker 2: that is our pharmacy technicians. Just this week in pharmacy,
34:33
Speaker 2: there was an article that came out via Drug Topic.
34:36
Speaker 2: Shout out to the people that work at Drug Topics.
34:38
Speaker 2: Got to see many of you at the NCPA while
34:41
Speaker 2: we were there.
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Speaker 6: You guys do great work.
34:43
Speaker 2: Thanks for publishing this article and it says meaningful recognition
34:48
Speaker 2: what pharmacy technicians really want. On World Pharmacy Technician Day
34:54
Speaker 2: and read down through this article. I'm gonna have a
34:57
Speaker 2: link in the show notes about this article. But what
35:00
Speaker 2: better person to have on twerks today to go through
35:05
Speaker 2: this than my friend Mike Johnston, CEO of.
35:10
Speaker 6: The npt A.
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Speaker 2: Mike, welcome back to tworks.
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Speaker 9: Hey, they're todd nice to see you.
35:18
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna make it tworks, but uh, just in
35:21
Speaker 2: case if you want to you.
35:23
Speaker 9: You do not want me to dance.
35:25
Speaker 2: Hey, didn't bring a twix to excell Confuse twerks and
35:29
Speaker 2: I'm on I'm on a keto diet right now, so
35:31
Speaker 2: I'm not into the twixes as much as I see
35:33
Speaker 2: them everywhere, and I think of you when I see
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Speaker 2: a Twix.
35:36
Speaker 9: I am too. I'm doing I'm doing a clean keto
35:41
Speaker 9: uh like, so nothing processed any anything like that. And
35:47
Speaker 9: it's been going incredible me too.
35:49
Speaker 2: I've finally gotten past the two weeks. Someone told me
35:52
Speaker 2: that two weeks. The first two weeks is the worst part.
35:55
Speaker 2: I've been on it for about three weeks and now
35:57
Speaker 2: I'm not having those cravings, not having as many sugar cravings,
36:01
Speaker 2: I'm not having the carb cravings. So yeah, I'm doing good.
36:05
Speaker 2: I'm down four pounds, so it's working, dude.
36:08
Speaker 9: It's it's only going to get easier from here. Like
36:11
Speaker 9: I'm on six or seven months now of it. I
36:16
Speaker 9: got to set up with a direct primary care doctor
36:20
Speaker 9: here in Houston that's like all about fixing metabolic health
36:24
Speaker 9: and everything. And I am down almost sixty pounds.
36:29
Speaker 6: It's incredible.
36:30
Speaker 9: Yeah, so you look like strong.
36:32
Speaker 6: That's why you look good too, and thank you.
36:37
Speaker 2: The whole initiative for me is to shave down, to
36:44
Speaker 2: write where I'm supposed to be, get muscly up again,
36:47
Speaker 2: get my muscle tighten, and then move on to something
36:50
Speaker 2: that it can sustain, like a Mediterranean environment or but
36:54
Speaker 2: that sounds like another podcast. I'm actually here to talk
36:57
Speaker 2: about pharmacy technicians and telling you you really did a
37:01
Speaker 2: great job on this article. Talk to our listeners about
37:06
Speaker 2: this meaningful recognition. What do our technicians really want in
37:10
Speaker 2: celebration of World Pharmacy Technician Day, which just happened this week.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we're a few days past it at this point,
37:18
Speaker 9: but I think there's some really valuable insights that we
37:23
Speaker 9: can glean from it. So we did a survey of
37:27
Speaker 9: all of our members a few weeks back, asking them,
37:31
Speaker 9: you know, in previous years did they get recognized on
37:36
Speaker 9: Pharmacy Technician Day by their employers? If so, how did
37:39
Speaker 9: they recognize them, and like, what do they want, what
37:43
Speaker 9: do they kind of see through? And overall it's it's
37:49
Speaker 9: about half of pharmacy technicians reported nothing like, no, no wishes,
37:58
Speaker 9: no nothing, just of pretended like it wasn't there. So
38:01
Speaker 9: that's a pretty pretty staggering percentage for not happening. So
38:08
Speaker 9: we've got a lot of room to grow. But the
38:11
Speaker 9: main message that came from it was whether it's Technician
38:16
Speaker 9: Day or any day throughout the year, technicians are really
38:21
Speaker 9: looking for some meaningful appreciation. They just go so often overlooked.
38:29
Speaker 9: They're definitely overworked and all of that aspect, but the
38:33
Speaker 9: overlooked part and they weren't asking for like huge bonuses
38:41
Speaker 9: or you know, fancy trips. What they all focused in
38:44
Speaker 9: on because we made an open ended question like what
38:46
Speaker 9: would mean the most to you? They were saying just
38:49
Speaker 9: something genuine, something personal, And so yeah, I think that's
38:57
Speaker 9: a lesson that we can all learn all your long.
39:00
Speaker 9: Just let's show the text love and respect and appreciation
39:04
Speaker 9: for what they're doing.
39:07
Speaker 2: That isn't just about the pharmacy industry either. We hear
39:11
Speaker 2: this from other sectors. There have been papers done on this.
39:14
Speaker 2: There's research done on this that if you just reach
39:17
Speaker 2: back to your employees, especially during times that you know
39:21
Speaker 2: that they're probably being beat down by business and taking
39:25
Speaker 2: care of their own clients and working through issues and
39:29
Speaker 2: how the pandemic kind of shook things up and now
39:32
Speaker 2: they're back in a workforce, we're trying to get things done.
39:35
Speaker 2: If they don't feel any buddy at that manager level
39:40
Speaker 2: saying to them, hey, kudos to you.
39:44
Speaker 6: We really pulled off last week. You did a great job.
39:47
Speaker 2: Couldn't have done it without you, you know, thanks so much.
39:50
Speaker 6: I think that is a way to.
39:54
Speaker 2: Encourage and to get them to step up and say
39:57
Speaker 2: if I get this recognition and that means that my superior,
40:02
Speaker 2: my manager, the person is paying attention.
40:05
Speaker 6: To what I'm doing.
40:05
Speaker 2: How that has an impact on the organization, how that
40:08
Speaker 2: it has impact on patients and there it gives them
40:13
Speaker 2: hope that this means that there's now a pathway for
40:17
Speaker 2: me to do something else or get a raise, or
40:22
Speaker 2: get some type of promotion or something. But recognition shows
40:27
Speaker 2: you as an employer, as a manager, that you care absolutely.
40:33
Speaker 9: It's you know, just people want to be seen, they
40:38
Speaker 9: want to feel appreciated, they want to feel respected, and
40:44
Speaker 9: I think we can do a much better job than
40:46
Speaker 9: you know, as an industry. Across the board.
40:50
Speaker 2: Agreed, Well, there's lots going on at the MPTA.
40:54
Speaker 6: Mike, you've been running this organization for years.
40:56
Speaker 2: How many years has it been now that you've been
40:58
Speaker 2: running the MPTA.
41:00
Speaker 9: This is year twenty six for us. I can't geez,
41:03
Speaker 9: I can't believe. Yeah, twenty six years.
41:07
Speaker 2: So next thing that's coming up, just for our listeners,
41:09
Speaker 2: a shout out to you. If you're driving, if you're jogging, running,
41:12
Speaker 2: you don't have your hands for you, don't worry about it.
41:14
Speaker 2: In the show notes, there's going to be a link
41:17
Speaker 2: to CPHT Live dot com and that is an event
41:22
Speaker 2: starting on November fifth through ninth. It's an online on
41:26
Speaker 2: demand event. NPTA is hosting this. Share with us Mike,
41:33
Speaker 2: what we can expect for CPHT Live.
41:37
Speaker 9: Yeah, this is our big flagship event of the year.
41:40
Speaker 9: We do lots of programs and events all year long,
41:43
Speaker 9: but this is our really big one and so it's
41:46
Speaker 9: going to be live from November fifth through the ninth.
41:49
Speaker 9: We do a couple of sessions during the week on
41:53
Speaker 9: the evenings, and then we do them on the weekend.
41:55
Speaker 9: So but then we record them so if you can't
41:58
Speaker 9: attend them all live, you get acts us to them
42:00
Speaker 9: all on demand. We're doing like twenty hours of CE.
42:03
Speaker 9: We've got some of the biggest names in the industry
42:07
Speaker 9: joining us this year. We're just really excited about it.
42:11
Speaker 9: And we make our events fun, Like who wants to
42:15
Speaker 9: sit through boring and you know, just yeah, no, our
42:21
Speaker 9: events are fun. Our chat, you know, stays busy. Everybody's
42:25
Speaker 9: talking with each other, even the speakers. Every year after
42:29
Speaker 9: our event, they're like, that was the most engaged audience
42:33
Speaker 9: we have presented to. And it's all virtual, so there's
42:37
Speaker 9: no travel, no hotels, all that kind of stuff.
42:41
Speaker 6: It's awesome.
42:42
Speaker 2: We're going to have a link to cph cph T
42:47
Speaker 2: Live in the show notes CPHT.
42:49
Speaker 6: Live dot com.
42:51
Speaker 2: You'll be able to get your tickets there. Very inexpensive,
42:54
Speaker 2: but filled with a bunch of insights.
42:57
Speaker 6: For the future.
42:59
Speaker 2: What's the future of certified pharmacy technicians and our pharmacy
43:03
Speaker 2: technicians look like I'm hopeful because I see a lot
43:06
Speaker 2: of things changing might at the pharmacist level, and when
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Speaker 2: that happens and there's more attention that's going to be
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Speaker 2: needed on the patient patient to pharmacist interaction. Who's going
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Speaker 2: to be taking on a lot of that work to
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Speaker 2: backfill prescription management and making sure things are taken care of,
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Speaker 2: scheduling the telehealth appointments, taking the documentation and comparing it
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Speaker 2: to the new EHR systems that are coming out just
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Speaker 2: for pharmacists. I mean, there's so much that I see
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Speaker 2: happening where I know that the pharmacy tech is going
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Speaker 2: to be pulled back into the work the workflow, and
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Speaker 2: it's going to create new opportunities for our techs.
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Speaker 9: Absolutely, we've to we'd love to have them there. We
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Speaker 9: even have a lot of pharmacists come and attend the
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Speaker 9: CEE is accredited for both. And so if you're a
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Speaker 9: pharmacist and you want to learn like what kind of
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Speaker 9: emerging roles there are for technicians and how your organization
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Speaker 9: can really utilize that, I think we provide a lot
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Speaker 9: of insight into near and future opportunities.
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Speaker 2: By the way, are you a pharmacy owner, are you
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Speaker 2: in long term care, pharmacy specialty, any sector of pharmacy?
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Speaker 2: Do you have technicians on your staff? Do you want
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Speaker 2: to get more out of your pharmacy technicians.
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Speaker 6: Than you have in previous years?
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Speaker 2: Reach out to the MPTA, get involved, Ask Mike and
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Speaker 2: his team, Hey, what can we do to level up
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Speaker 2: our pharmacy technicians? And Mike, you guys have a tremendous
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Speaker 2: amount of certifications, career paths ideas around that exact subject.
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Speaker 2: So the CP the NPTA is more than just to
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Speaker 2: advocate and to rise up the voices of pharmacy technicians.
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Speaker 2: It's to support the entire business of pharmacy.
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Speaker 9: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, we always love seeing you on tw
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Speaker 2: and being part of the twerks. I'm gonna try to twerks.
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Speaker 2: No it's not working, so I'm gonna stop doing it.
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Speaker 2: So but you have to promise to come back soon,
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Speaker 2: and let's interview some of your pharmacy techs out there too.
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Speaker 9: Awesome, we'll do Thanks so much time.
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Speaker 6: All right, see you guys.
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Speaker 2: Hey, We'll be right back with more twerks.
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Speaker 2: All right, we are back this week in pharmacy. I'm
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Speaker 2: so excited about the fall season. The American Society of
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Speaker 2: Consultant Pharmacists Annual event is happening. I think it's happening
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Speaker 2: right now the ASCP. Shout out to Chad Wars and
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Speaker 2: the team over at the AACP. We know that doctor
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Speaker 2: Tamara Ruguls will be present there. She's one of our podcasters.
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Speaker 2: She does a ton of work with our network please
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Speaker 2: look her up. Tamara Rugules has a show on the network.
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Speaker 2: It's all about the geriatric focus, so it's the Geriatric
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Speaker 2: Pharmacy Focus podcast. Her latest episode is the pharmacist role
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Speaker 2: in a hospice. That's a really interesting subject. You're coming
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Speaker 2: to the end of life. You deserve to be peaceful.
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Speaker 2: You should make your patients comfortable. How are pharmacists working
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Speaker 2: with other members of the team during that extremely sensitive time?
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Speaker 2: That takes a lot of respect, a lot of poise,
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Speaker 2: a lot of understanding. What have you prefaced in preparation
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Speaker 2: for a specific patient's need during that end life? So
47:35
Speaker 2: shout out to the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. You
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Speaker 2: guys are leading the charge in our consultant pharmacists. Hey,
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Speaker 2: That was the challenge that we mentioned with Jesse McCullough
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Speaker 2: Right now, we're reviewing the NEASPS twenty twenty five Annual
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Speaker 2: Event and Expo. We've put out all three of the
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Speaker 2: episodes and just wanted to say thank you so much
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Speaker 2: to JB Consulting for supporting us in that event. Also,
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Speaker 2: counter Talk is out. Cardinal Health has had a podcast
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Speaker 2: in the network for years and this is an important
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Speaker 2: topic that they're talking about fueling independent pharmacy advocacy with
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Speaker 2: the NCPA Digest. The NCPA Digest just came out. Take
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Speaker 2: a listen to that episode, get an idea of what
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Speaker 2: they're talking about the future of independent community pharmacy and
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Speaker 2: what a better time to be putting the NPT or
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Speaker 2: NCPA Digest out as we just got back from the
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Speaker 2: NCPA's annual event. So good to see everybody. Thank you
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