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Longtime phony Walgreens pharmacist Kim Thien Le gave out
745,000 prescriptions, authorities say
DIR By: Satanica
Date: January 31, 2019, 10:36 am
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> San Jose, Calif. – A Bay Area woman is accused of posing as a
pharmacist and handing out some 745,000 prescriptions before she
was caught, the California Board of Pharmacy confirmed
Wednesday. According to the board, Kim Thien Le told them she'd
attended Creighton University, but records revealed she'd never
graduated. When the Board asked Le for her pharmacist license
number, they said they discovered she'd used the license numbers
of two pharmacists with similar names.
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> CBS San Francisco reports that, during questioning, Le told
the board, "Me and my son would be very grateful if you could
just forget about this."
> [....]
> She worked at Walgreens in San Jose, Milpitas and Fremont.
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> "I'm just shocked beyond belief that this would happen here at
Walgreens, a place that we trust," said customer Sandra
Cervantez. "It really makes me suspect of how we're checking
pharmacists' backgrounds."
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> Le isn't the only one in trouble. The board is looking at
revoking Walgreens' pharmacy licenses for the stores where she
worked.
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> Walgreens couldn't tell the board if it had requested or
reviewed Le's pharmacist license and couldn't furnish her
employment application during the agency's investigation.
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> "Walgreens should've done a better job in screening," said
customer Monte Williams.
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> A Walgreens spokesperson said that Le stopped working for the
company in 2017 and that the company "undertook a
re-verification of the licenses of all our pharmacists
nationwide to ensure that this was an isolated incident."
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> When asked how Le was able to work at Walgreens for so long
under the guise that she was a pharmacist, the spokesperson
didn't want to comment.
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> "Something has to change either with Walgreens or the way
people are checked for their backgrounds," said Cervantez.
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> The case remains under investigation.
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#Post#: 892--------------------------------------------------
Re: Longtime phony Walgreens pharmacist Kim Thien Le gave out
745,000 prescriptions, authorities say
DIR By: Ghosttruck
Date: January 31, 2019, 10:45 am
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Wow...I'm guessing she at least checked a prescription written
by a doc?
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Re: Longtime phony Walgreens pharmacist Kim Thien Le gave out
745,000 prescriptions, authorities say
DIR By: Satanica
Date: January 31, 2019, 11:35 am
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Walgreens is already in trouble for overcharging govt programs
such as Medicare and Medicaid.
My son has a regular prescription that he decided to get
refilled at CVS that turned into a mess, and I told CVS we would
never be back to their store for any reason. He should've taken
it to the long time private pharmacy that we've been using for
years. The difference in how they treat the customers, their
expertise, and their understanding of YOUR particular
prescriptions is stunning compared to these effing chain
pharmacies.
#Post#: 912--------------------------------------------------
Re: Longtime phony Walgreens pharmacist Kim Thien Le gave out
745,000 prescriptions, authorities say
DIR By: Babs
Date: January 31, 2019, 11:53 am
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"Me and my son would be very grateful if you could just forget
about this."
Oh, well, sure, ok then, we'll just let bygones be bygones with
a big "Never mind!". ;)
#Post#: 926--------------------------------------------------
Re: Longtime phony Walgreens pharmacist Kim Thien Le gave out
745,000 prescriptions, authorities say
DIR By: KatO9Tails
Date: January 31, 2019, 1:34 pm
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busy little bee, making sure everyone was medicated that had
the cash
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Re: Longtime phony Walgreens pharmacist Kim Thien Le gave out
745,000 prescriptions, authorities say
DIR By: FellOffThePorch
Date: January 31, 2019, 1:54 pm
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> "Me and my son would be very grateful if you could just forget
about this."
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This is the greatest response to a "board" of any kind... ever.
Especially since her son wants it too.
#Post#: 934--------------------------------------------------
Re: Longtime phony Walgreens pharmacist Kim Thien Le gave out
745,000 prescriptions, authorities say
DIR By: BG
Date: January 31, 2019, 2:07 pm
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"Me and my son would be very grateful if you could just forget
about this."
Well alrighty then, as song as you would be grateful s'all
good...
#Post#: 966--------------------------------------------------
Re: Longtime phony Walgreens pharmacist Kim Thien Le gave out
745,000 prescriptions, authorities say
DIR By: Myra manes
Date: January 31, 2019, 6:28 pm
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Did I miss where it stated how many years she worked there? ???
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Re: Longtime phony Walgreens pharmacist Kim Thien Le gave out
745,000 prescriptions, authorities say
DIR By: Satanica
Date: February 1, 2019, 7:56 am
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> According to documents filed by the board, Le handled 745,355
prescriptions in the course of a decade as a pharmacist and
pharmacy manager. She worked at Walgreens in San Jose, Milpitas
and Fremont.
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