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Please give me eye contact!
It what seems obvious findings, patients prefer their doctors to be engaging in conversation, and to ignore any online screens. As electronic medical records become more common, it’s not unusual for doctors to enter data into a computer as they talk with their patients. Doctors seeing patients for the first time, when trying to build…
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Appreciation increases your value
A man attending a seminar on interpersonal relationships became convinced of the need for him to begin showing appreciation to people. His family seemed like an appropriate place to start. So on his way home, he picked up a dozen long-stem roses and a box of chocolates. This was going to be a real surprise,…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. UQ News: Is there need to reform international drug treaties? 2. CannabisCheri: This Is Your Brain On Marijuana: An RN’s Perspective 3. Cannatech News: Using THC To Treat Symptoms Of Crohn’s Disease
1. UQ News: Is there need to reform international drug treaties? Professor Hall calls for “rigorous evaluation” The future of international drug control treaties is in question because of recent treaty-violating decisions to legalise non-medical cannabis use in Canada, the United States and Uruguay. Professor Wayne Hall from The University of Queensland Centre for Youth Substance Abuse is urging caution on…
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The Safe Vaccine Debate – 1.The Dr Judy Wileyman Report: Newsletters #178 & #179 2. AVN: VaxXed QLD Reaches Townsville 3. Robert Kennedy’s World Mercury Project: The Interwoven Global Epidemics of Mercury Toxicity and Autism
1. The Dr Judy Wileyman Report: Newsletters #178 & #179 Newsletter 178 The Australian Government is using Pseudoscience to Remove Vaccination Choice – a Human Right. 15 October 2017 Currently the Australian government is mandating with coercive strategies (financial penalties) 16 vaccines for children up to 20 years of age. There are also many employment situations in…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Preparing pharmacy assistants for changes to pain medicines 2. Pros and cons for pharmacists in Productivity Commission 3. Pharmacists welcome new Rural Health Commissioner 4. New resources to minimise impact of codeine transition
1. Preparing pharmacy assistants for changes to pain medicines October 27, 2017 JOINT MEDIA RELEASE The change to the scheduling of pain and cold and flu medicines from 1 February 2018 represents a significant shift in the pain management category for community pharmacy, according to the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the Pharmaceutical Society of…
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ASMI Media Releases – 1. Diamond Award Winners 2. Billions can be saved with more non-prescriptions medicines 3. How you respond to key concerns about switch 4. Call to recognise economic value of self care, switch 5. ASMI issues regulators and industry a challenge to change
ASMI congratulates Diamond Awards winners –Celebrating marketing and sales excellence in the non-prescription medicines industry 23 October, 2017 –The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) recognised excellence in sales and marketing at the prestigious Diamond Awards, held on the final afternoon of the World Self Medication Industry (WSMI) General Assembly in Sydney last week. This year, the Marketing Awards…
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NPS Media Releases – 1. Australian Prescriber 2. World Antibiotic Awareness Week
INDEPENDENT. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. EVIDENCE BASED PODCAST 24 OCTOBER 2017 PODCAST Episode 8 – Treatment of fibromyalgia Dr David Liew interviews Richard Kwiatek, a rheumatologist from Adelaide, about fibromyalgia and how GPs can help these patients in the community. Listen here ► © 2017 NPS MedicineWise | ABN: 61 082 034 393 Independent. Not-for-profit. Evidence…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 16 October 2017
Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine, dated Monday 16 October 2017. It is interesting to note that PSA and PGA are beginning to work more closely on health issues, with the result that issues such as the sale of low dose codeine products, and the pharmacy proposition of the sale…
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Pharmacy Disruptors – Amazon, Artificial Intelligence & Holographic Health Practitioners
Disruption, as we all know, is an inevitability that is to be feared. If that fear can be used to motivate a chain reaction of positivity, then we have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Fear is already building around the knowledge that Amazon will be entering the pharmacy market in Australia and that…
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Your business depends on your personal touch
Mamie Adams always enjoyed going to a branch post office in her town because the postal employees there were friendly. She went there to buy stamps just before the holidays one year and the lines were particularly long. Someone pointed out that there was no need to wait in line because there was a stamp machine in…