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Thank you for your coverage of the closing of La Conner Drugs. Your writer exposed the real reason medications cost so much in the U.S. I would like to add one additional perspective.

Having served on a hospital board and chaired a local clinical board, I value the pharmacist, a local pharmacist familiar with the maladies being faced by her community and her customer/patients.

The risks of unanticipated drug interactions can be critical and sometimes lethal. Having a local pharmacist manage all your prescriptions is the best guardian against tragic, unanticipated drug interactions. I always make a point to know my pharmacist and for her to know me and what I’m taking. That isn’t possible with mail-order prescription filling.

Jerry George

La Conner