Danny Cottrell News Today

If you caught NCPA CEO Douglas Hoey’s Executive Update last Friday, you read about Danny Cottrell’s perspective on the event. "I've always thought [fly-in] was the most important meeting they could possibly go to," he told America's Pharmacist® in a profile last summer.

Dear Colleague, "A lot of people are afraid they'll mess up or say the wrong thing to a member of Congress, and it's a scary environment—an imposing environment in Washington—and you just have to relax and talk. Speak your mind. That's it. That's how you talk to an elected official."

President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act allows Medicare to negotiate some drug prices, a change that the pharmaceutical industry and Republicans have opposed for decades.

“The biggest thing a pharmacist has to be able to do … is answer basic questions,” says Danny Cottrell, who owns Medical Center Pharmacy, in Brewton, Ala, and has been working as a pharmacist — in the same location — for more than 40 years. “A lot of folks just need someone they trust to tell them how to take their medicine right, or what to pair with their medicine.” Cottrell is featured in the August issue of America’s Pharmacist®, on its way to mailboxes now and available onl...