i do not believe a local pharmacy should practice medicine giving me good advice about drugs is one thing but giving shots is another

Giving a shot takes no special expertise. I was taught how to do it in 5 minutes. The issue is that the pharmacists are already overburdened by high volumes of medication orders. They have unskilled workers helping them. Medical errors are made. This is all about profits, greed, money. Nobody cares about safety or our health. It's all about the almighty dollar.

Giving a shot takes no special expertise, as long as you've been trained to do it, and are well aware of the indications and precautions, understand basic anatomy and can both recognize and treat reactions and complications. Aren't nurses and doctors in a better position than a pharmacist, who's education is directed quite differently?
What happens to a patient who develops a severe allergic reaction in a busy drugstore?
Frankly, there's a good reason that medicine has been compartmentalized for a hundred years, and none of these changes, or blurring of the boundaries, will foster better health care. They are pushed largely to save the insurance companies money, despite their already obscene profits at the expense of their clients (and health providers).

I wonder (I really do - not trying to be smart) if the Soviet Union tried store clinics, maybe at GUM or at smaller shops - it seems a natural for a mass society approach to citizens seen as "the multitudes."

I hope if WAG starts these services that it isn't as high as the 30 count generic sinus medication over the counter at $8 when WMT has the 60 count for $8. The same stuff!! I could not believe it but this is CORRECT. I will allow WAG to stay in my mutual fund rather than buy it from my broker.
Mr. Man from Texas

Let Starbucks do it.