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Avatars May Take Over Patient Communications – Where to from there?
Global Pharma’s are known to be funding the development of systems to deal directly with patients. These systems will involve the use of Artificial Intelligence and the use of Volumetric 3D immersion technologies. The former will allow delivery of technical information through well modulated voice transmission, while the latter will provide an “avatar” transformed from…
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Why are health professionals so hostile to each other?
The amount of hostility among health professionals seems to be at an all-time high. Are “scope of practice” and “turf” battles really escalating, or it it just more visible in this modern era of anonymous comments and online posts? The conversation gets louder and uglier. Patients are complex creatures. Medical care is multi-faceted. We see…
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I’ll never forget what’s-his-name
A man had gone to a circus as a small boy and decided to return years later. He was sitting in a cheap seat when an elephant came along, reached up into the stands, wrapped his trunk gently about the man and carried him over to the best seat. The man turned to his…
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COMMENT ON NCP REVIEWS AND WHAT CAN BE LEARNED – A Tribute to Rollo Manning
Editor’s Note: Rollo Manning was my strongest critic. i2P began life originally as Computachem Newsletter. The first publication was transmitted in February 2000 and immediately attracted the attention of pharmacist Rollo Manning who sent me a broadside of questions that demanded immediate answers. With laser-like precision he dismantled my thoughts, my presentation – just about everything…
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Boots Accused of Profiteering Over Professionalism
Boots has been accused of boosting its profits by forcing staff to abuse an NHS scheme intended to help sick patients. Managers at Britain’s biggest pharmacy chain were found to be directing their pharmacists to provide medicine-use reviews (MUR’s) to patients who didn’t need them, in order to claim public money from the NHS. The NHS…
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The Tide is Turning Against Medical Skeptics, Fraudulent Science and Corrupt Politicians
Editor’s Note: At last the tide is turning against those dupes who have become paid mouthpieces for Big Pharma as their enormous program of duplicity begins to unravel. Researchers like Australia’s Judy Wilyman have documented the facts. But unconventional methods for spreading information for rational and open debate have had to be used because debate…
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Medical postcard from New York, April 2016
Dear Colleagues, I can report that spring has sprung in New York. After a cold start, April has seen a wonderful transition from winter bareness to a colour-wheel of splendid blossoms, bulbs and canopy greenery. Easter was early this year and so were the cherry blossoms which are at their peak over a week before…
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The State We Are In
NONE of our so called representative bodies have accepted ANY RESPONSIBILITY for the downright dismal and depressing state the so called Pharmacy profession finds itself in. The Pharmacy Guild- represents Pharmacy owners who would only comprise some 10-15% of ALL the 29,150 Pharmacists on the AHPRA register (Nov 2015 figures). The Guild has a major…
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How Australia is losing the health fight
Imagine telling the good folk of 1990 that in the near future, we’d be redesigning hospitals to accommodate the influx of obese patients.Or that almost all of our sporting legends would be contractually obliged to advertise alcohol. Or most kids would be driven less than a kilometre to and from school. Twenty-five years ago, these…