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Fast Food Leading the way – Annihilate Dispensing or Enhance it?
The fast food industry is rapidly moving to replace employees with robots to eliminate payroll, health benefits and human unreliability. It will prove to be a template for pharmacy evolution and it’s under way right now. Also, it’s very likely that, within your professional lifetime, you’re going to see a huge revolution in robotics. It…
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VAXXED – From Cover-Up to Catastrophe
The writers at i2P have always had knowledge of the links between Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, Big Tobacco and mainstream media. Big Pharma has major investments in mainstream media and entertainment enterprises. It also includes Hollywood and its actors, plus the music industry and sporting organisations. That Big Pharma can practice its character assassination through its…
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Coercion Starts at the Top
We are losing our democracy at a very fast rate. It’s very obvious that we do not have a government “of the people, by the people, for the people”. It is rule by coercion and corruption with mainly US corporate giants, pulling the strings. And Australia is about to give up its heritage to corporate…
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Embracing the Empowered Patient
The year 2016 ushered in a range of problems that caught health care providers generally unprepared as events unfolded. We all tend to keep in our own silos and do not necessarily take on an awareness with what is happening in the world of doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners unless they impact us directly…
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Community Pharmacy or Commodity Pharmacy?
Are pharmacies becoming a glamorised outlet for widely advertised complementary and over-the-counter medicines that require no skill to “pack and wrap”? Sales based on an advertisement in weekend papers (all heavily discounted of course!) and sales of nutritionals into China are driving our professionalism underground. Pharmacists who have never entertained supporting a particular complementary medicine…
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Australian Politicians presenting Myths about Vaccination
In Australia politicians and journalists are promoting vaccination programs with the aim of “increasing the immunisation rates in the population”. This statement implies that increased vaccination rates result in healthier communities. This implication is false. Children born in the last two decades are the most vaccinated in history (using more vaccines and having the highest…
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The Lessons From History – From Someone Who Has Lived It
Two weeks ago we published an article called Make the Right Turn at the Next Crossroads . It was based on a story written by a senior US pharmacist named Truman Lastinger and published in the US magazine, Drug Topics. Because Truman Lastinger and I are of similar vintage I could strongly identify with the period…
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Marketing Your Leadership Potential – It’s a Great Persuader
Marketing is a powerful tool. Just ask any global drug company. It is their primary tool that underwrites the evidence base for their patented drugs. It’s a powerful tool to build cultural awareness, so that makes it a great tool for introducing the concepts that will take us down the pathway for a new paradigm pharmacy.…
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Understanding the Impacts of a Global Pharmacy Invasion
Recently, i2P ran some articles postulating the expansion strategies of global supermarket and pharmacy groups. It is a story of consolidation of the pharmacy industry, both horizontally and vertically to form up massive conglomerates that concentrate purchasing power and market share of retail pharmacy goods and services. And it is a story that is mostly…
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Important Communications Relating to Vaccine Policy and Debate
Editor’s Note: The following communications from Dr Judy Wilyman illustrate her tenacity and dedication to righting the wrongs created by the vaccine industry and their associates in mainstream media plus the lobby efforts with selected politicians with incorrect information. Full marks to Judy for standing up to all the pressures directed at her in a…