Dr. Chrystian Pereira
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Hello. Thank you. Thank you for having me on. Just for clarification, my name is pronounced Christian Pereira. Christian. Yeah, perfect. Thank you. All right. So what is a pharmacy desert? I think there's a lot of interpretations for it. And our group has come up with a definition that fits Minnesota and looks at as a state.
Hello. Thank you. Thank you for having me on. Just for clarification, my name is pronounced Christian Pereira. Christian. Yeah, perfect. Thank you. All right. So what is a pharmacy desert? I think there's a lot of interpretations for it. And our group has come up with a definition that fits Minnesota and looks at as a state.
But I think it's describing what you're saying is the saying like this, a sense of a loss, a sense of a loss of a resource for a community, for a neighborhood, for a group of people. And when that when that resource is gone, like in this vacuum, then what happens? And that's kind of what I like to talk about and what I like to think about, too.
But I think it's describing what you're saying is the saying like this, a sense of a loss, a sense of a loss of a resource for a community, for a neighborhood, for a group of people. And when that when that resource is gone, like in this vacuum, then what happens? And that's kind of what I like to talk about and what I like to think about, too.
Yeah, that's a great question. So I think the definition was termed or like coined like around 2012. I haven't specifically, but right around like 2010, 2012. And they use a few different phrases for medication desert and pharmacy desert. And it started looking at like really densely populated metros like Chicago and New York and looking at like, oh, how pharmacies were going away. So that's true.
Yeah, that's a great question. So I think the definition was termed or like coined like around 2012. I haven't specifically, but right around like 2010, 2012. And they use a few different phrases for medication desert and pharmacy desert. And it started looking at like really densely populated metros like Chicago and New York and looking at like, oh, how pharmacies were going away. So that's true.
Pharmacies are businesses at their core. Just like you're saying, there's lots of experiences we've had in our neighborhoods where we used to know a pharmacy that's gone away. Then you can tell that building used to be a pharmacy.
Pharmacies are businesses at their core. Just like you're saying, there's lots of experiences we've had in our neighborhoods where we used to know a pharmacy that's gone away. Then you can tell that building used to be a pharmacy.
one fun thing in Minnesota is that like lettering or like certain words you can only use certain words on certain buildings that are designated as pharmacies so you can't use the word drugs on anything that's not a pharmacy like the the word the lettering uh to the public but sometimes you'll walk by or see a business and they'll have like in stained glass they'll say drugs on it because that building used to be a pharmacy or uh you know there's like examples of liquor stores uh that like
one fun thing in Minnesota is that like lettering or like certain words you can only use certain words on certain buildings that are designated as pharmacies so you can't use the word drugs on anything that's not a pharmacy like the the word the lettering uh to the public but sometimes you'll walk by or see a business and they'll have like in stained glass they'll say drugs on it because that building used to be a pharmacy or uh you know there's like examples of liquor stores uh that like
it's just kind of really funny kind of like relics of kind of old pharmacies uh and past businesses have kind of come and then and then unfortunately gone uh so so i think that's been always true as far as a small business that where a pharmacy could come and could go away what we're kind of saying is that there's been an acceleration and where this isn't following a normal business practice uh where they're like an acceleration of just
it's just kind of really funny kind of like relics of kind of old pharmacies uh and past businesses have kind of come and then and then unfortunately gone uh so so i think that's been always true as far as a small business that where a pharmacy could come and could go away what we're kind of saying is that there's been an acceleration and where this isn't following a normal business practice uh where they're like an acceleration of just
decreasing uh like fewer pharmacies and why are they going away and where are they going away that is grabbing people's attention and i would say since 2012 is when kind of like the first alarms kind of started going up uh in terms of these going out but these this is accelerated minnesota particularly in 2017 and since 2017 and gotten up through today and yearly today to date it's been a
decreasing uh like fewer pharmacies and why are they going away and where are they going away that is grabbing people's attention and i would say since 2012 is when kind of like the first alarms kind of started going up uh in terms of these going out but these this is accelerated minnesota particularly in 2017 and since 2017 and gotten up through today and yearly today to date it's been a
a big increase in number of pharmacies leaving the state of Minnesota, but it's a national phenomenon, too.
a big increase in number of pharmacies leaving the state of Minnesota, but it's a national phenomenon, too.