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Toward the end of last year we encountered a problem never had before: no medicine. I have to hand it to Target Pharmacy at White Oak...they did everything in their power to find it. The pharmacist was calling the manufacturing company herself twice a day (instead of going through Target headquarters), and ultimately started calling pharmacies in Wake and Johnston county until she found one that could fill the order. We've had insurance issues before, but never unavailability problems. A few months later we read a news article that hospitals were running out of certain medicines and having to tell patients to either switch drugs or stop treatments. We were a little alarmed, but then every month his refill was available...until now.

I am so thankful for a pharmacy and its pharmacists who go above and beyond the call of duty in trying to find needed medicines, and I'm a bit puzzled as to the manufacturing "backlog".  If the reports are true, then I'm thankful contaminated batches are destroyed, but it also makes me wonder why in 30 years this was never an issue, but suddenly contamination is such a problem that it prevents medicines from being delivered to where it's needed most. Is this a result of people not taking pride in their work or jobs and being lazy, or is there something else going on?

We'll never know. So meanwhile I keep praising God for two pharmacists who call with daily updates and persistently seek solutions.
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