The Dose by Dr. Thea Blystone 🔈

Thea Blystone, PharmD

The truth bombs of a delicate grenade theablystone.substack.com

  1. 6d ago

    The Dose Ep. 24: I Was Her Flashlight. She Saw My Value Before I Did.

    At a retreat, a friend gathered the people who had walked through different chapters of life with her and named what each of us had brought into it. She called me her flashlight. My first thought? The one in the junk drawer. The one with the half-dead batteries that quits three seconds after you need it. It took me years to understand what she actually saw. Then a couple of weeks ago, a pharmacist told me what she’d done for a patient was “just doing my job,” and I realized I’d been hearing the same thing from the other side. This one’s for every pharmacist who has caught something that mattered and called it nothing special. 🔦 LinkedIn Live tomorrow: From “Just My Job” to Your Money MapTuesday, November 3, 1 PM EThttps://www.linkedin.com/events/7523037456321921025Can’t make it live? The replay will stay on my LinkedIn profile. 📍 Not sure which path fits you? Take the assessment: http://tmrx.care/start If this landed, send it to the friend who’s been your flashlight. 🔦 Get full access to Prescribed Change at theablystone.substack.com/subscribe

    The Dose Ep. 24: I Was Her Flashlight. She Saw My Value Before I Did.

  2. Oct 26

    The Dose Ep #23: You’re Not Special — And That’s Exactly the Point.

    You’ve already done the work. You just never called it care management — and you never got paid for it. Every day at the counter, you support, educate, and hold patients accountable to better outcomes between their office visits. You answer the 8 p.m. phone call. You explain the lab result nobody else took time to explain. That’s not “just being a pharmacist.” That’s care coordination, and it has a name, a structure, and a billing code. In this episode of The Dose, Dr. Thea Blystone makes the case that you don’t need more clinical knowledge to build a care management practice. More knowledge does not equal a business. You need the structure and the frameworks to name what you already do, claim it as your work, and finally get paid for it. Here’s the math that should keep you up at night: there are over 311,000 pharmacists in this country. If each of us took 200 patients, we could cover every Medicare life in America — without even working full-time. The industry of pharmacy is shrinking. The value of a pharmacist is not. If this one resonates, tell me which part you want more help with. And if someone in your network needs to hear it, send it their way. Get full access to Prescribed Change at theablystone.substack.com/subscribe

    The Dose Ep #23: You’re Not Special — And That’s Exactly the Point.

  3. Oct 19

    Prevent Diabetes With Small Lifestyle Changes

    You might see your doctor a few times a year, but most of your health happens in the days between those visits. In this talk, recorded at a community symposium in Crawford County, I share what I learned when I took (and then taught) the Diabetes Prevention Program, and why I think it’s one of the most practical tools we have.In this episode:• Building your plate: fruits and vegetables first, then protein, then carbs• Rethinking what you drink• Hidden sodium, and why to shop the outside of the grocery store• Sitting less, the sit-to-stand test, and fall risk• Why sleep and a steady bedtime matter• How age-friendly pharmacy and between-visit care keep patients from falling through the cracks• Medicare open enrollment for 2027, and why you shouldn’t “set it and forget it”I close with a few questions to bring to your next appointment: What’s my A1C? What’s my blood pressure at home compared to in the office? Get full access to Prescribed Change at theablystone.substack.com/subscribe

    Prevent Diabetes With Small Lifestyle Changes

  4. Oct 12

    The Dose Ep#21: The Couple Who Paid a Copay So I’d Keep Calling

    A couple on my panel started paying a copay to work with me, and I didn’t find out until after. When I asked if they were okay with it, they told me why they were. It took me months to understand what they meant. This week, the answer most of you gave me, and what I wish someone had told me 15 years ago. Tomorrow night, Tue Oct 13 at 7 pm ET: The Possibility Finder. Join through The Full Prescription founding tier. Get full access to Prescribed Change at theablystone.substack.com/subscribe

    The Dose Ep#21: The Couple Who Paid a Copay So I’d Keep Calling

  5. Oct 6

    The Dose Ep. 20: The Night I Locked My Car Door and Asked What I Actually Wanted

    An hour and 48 minutes from home. Three drive-thru windows. Two technicians who'd already called off. By close we'd filled almost 1,500 prescriptions, and I still had the drive home ahead of me. It took me 15 years to answer the question I asked myself in that parking lot. This week I'm asking you. Get full access to Prescribed Change at theablystone.substack.com/subscribe

    The Dose Ep. 20: The Night I Locked My Car Door and Asked What I Actually Wanted

  6. Sep 29

    If This Works, Why Isn't Everyone Doing It? | The Dose: A Bonus Episode

    “If this really works, why isn’t everyone doing it?” I hear that question all the time from pharmacists. It’s a fair question. So in this bonus episode, I answer it two ways. First, with what care management actually is: the same conversations you’ve been having at the pharmacy counter for years. Support, education, and accountability between office visits, with one extra step that gets you paid for it. Second, with a 2 a.m. phone call from pharmacy school, when I told my mom I wanted to quit. She didn’t give me a pep talk. She gave me one sentence, told me to go to bed, and hung up. Turns out she answered this question 25 years before anyone asked it. 🎙️ 6 minutes. Listen, then tell me: what’s the reason YOU haven’t started? Get full access to Prescribed Change at theablystone.substack.com/subscribe

    If This Works, Why Isn't Everyone Doing It? | The Dose: A Bonus Episode

  7. Sep 28

    The Dose Ep. 19: I Didn't Know I'd Already Built the Network

    There was an office I called constantly from the retail counter. Prior auths, prescriptions that didn't look right, whatever needed cleaning up on a Tuesday afternoon. I never thought of it as anything but my job. Years later, when I decided to build my own practice and needed a physician to talk to, that's the office I called. They already knew me. They still didn't say yes right away. It took months of showing up, a physician who left the country for a month, and weeks where nothing moved at all. In this episode, I share what happened next, the trust bucket I didn't know I'd been filling for years, and what a pharmacist I'm coaching found when she looked at her own "ordinary" work a little differently. Get full access to Prescribed Change at theablystone.substack.com/subscribe

    The Dose Ep. 19: I Didn't Know I'd Already Built the Network

  8. Sep 21

    The Dose Ep.18: 21 Physicians Later, My Stomach Still Flips

    I've known her for years. We worked beside each other at the hospital. So why, walking into her long-term care facility last week, did I feel like I might throw up? Eight years, 21 physician partners, hundreds of patients, and the butterflies still showed up right on schedule. Monetize Your Expertise | ASCP Annual Meeting, National Harbor | Halloween Weekend Register Here Get full access to Prescribed Change at theablystone.substack.com/subscribe

    The Dose Ep.18: 21 Physicians Later, My Stomach Still Flips
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