While grateful Caremark met with top clinicians, I'm angry CVS is choosing to ignore their medical expertise & is charging ahead in 24 hours to take stable patients off the anticoagulant which their doctors prescribed, ignoring #patientsafety. Disgraceful.
https://twitter.com/GBarnesMD/status/1476572313558478853
I also note that I & patient groups have tried to speak with CVS leadership for weeks without success. Our only methods then have been to resort to letters, petitions, and tweets like this. How can a company have such power over patient lives & yet we have no access?
This is the very situation in which consumers--patients in this case--need government to intervene & provide protection. We are powerless & do not have the ability to change PBMs. They are practicing medicine over us without our consent & over our doctors orders.
I am very grateful for the doctors who went to Caremark & tried to get them to do the right thing. This issue has required time away from your families at the holidays. Thank you for trying. Please continue your advocacy. We need you. ♥️
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