A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine confirms what many of us have known intuitively: pharmacists play a critical, underutilized role in preventing medication-related emergencies.

The research analyzed over 40,000 emergency department visits and found that 14.1% of visits related to adverse drug events could have been prevented—had there been prior pharmacist intervention.

Let that sink in: 1 in 7.

What’s even more startling is how avoidable these outcomes were with the right oversight. The most common issues? Medications prescribed inappropriately, therapeutic duplications, and drug interactions. In other words, the types of problems pharmacists are uniquely trained to identify and solve.

This Is Where the System Is Failing

In many traditional pharmacy roles, you're bound by time, metrics, and an endless stream of prescriptions. You rarely have the space—or support—to intervene meaningfully. But this study proves: when pharmacists are given the right tools and autonomy, lives are changed.

So the real question becomes:
What are we still doing behind the counter, reacting instead of preventing?

The Pivot Is the Path Forward

This is exactly why The Pivot Program exists.

We teach pharmacists how to transition into remote clinical roles—like Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM)—where their interventions are not just welcomed, but expected.

In these settings, you're not just catching problems. You're preventing ER visits. You're improving outcomes. You're finally practicing at the top of your license.

Want to See What That Looks Like? Join Us.

🎯 Last May 18 & 19, we hosted Beyond Burnout: The PharmD Reset—a free, 2-day virtual workshop that will change the way you think about your license, your value, and your future in pharmacy.

This isn’t about leaving pharmacy. It’s about finally using it fully.

🔗 Watch the replay of the workshop here.
Let’s stop waiting for permission and start leading the change.