> and the vendor played MBA-nonsense games like requiring two to be purchased at a time
Washington State, the vendors lobbied on the back of a tragic incident to require a variety of people and places to have EpiPens physically present at all times...
... including in the back of ambulances, when we (I am, or was, a paramedic) we had epinephrine already available.
Which resulted in a huge amount of waste, throwing out expired EpiPens, etc. The number of hoops we had to jump through with the DOH to eventually allow us to have a specific "epi jump kit" (a small tackle box with syringes and a vial, alcohol, etc.) was enormous, but the net result was a replacement cost of $28 for the kit (actually less, because the $28 included the tackle box) versus the $600+ for EpiPens.
Washington State, the vendors lobbied on the back of a tragic incident to require a variety of people and places to have EpiPens physically present at all times...
... including in the back of ambulances, when we (I am, or was, a paramedic) we had epinephrine already available.
Which resulted in a huge amount of waste, throwing out expired EpiPens, etc. The number of hoops we had to jump through with the DOH to eventually allow us to have a specific "epi jump kit" (a small tackle box with syringes and a vial, alcohol, etc.) was enormous, but the net result was a replacement cost of $28 for the kit (actually less, because the $28 included the tackle box) versus the $600+ for EpiPens.