how do pharmacies work? Do they just have every kind of medication at all time? How is a prescription ready within an hour?

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how do pharmacies work? Do they just have every kind of medication at all time? How is a prescription ready within an hour?

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Hospital pharmacy tech here, inpatient setting. We have three large carousels that keep the majority of our meds in. About 12 refrigerators for cold storage medications. My site does a lot of transplants so there’s some high cost drugs we keep in stock like factors and chemotherapy.

Generally speaking we have a two weeks supply of most things and get deliveries 5 days a week. If we run out of something we can request it from another hospital in our system.