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The Patient Proposition
I am wondering if there are any pharmacists out there who have ever created a written proposal to recruit patients to your practice. The reason I ask is that so many pharmacists in their communications with each other or with other health professionals, talk in terms of having “customers”, with the word “patient” appearing spasmodically…
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Developing a Single Patient View
From the last business cycle to the current version, pharmacists and community pharmacies have undergone some profound experiences and rapid change. The transition to now is leaving in its wake a sense of indecision and while many opportunities have arisen to improve pharmacist skills and community pharmacy development, only a small number of talented individuals…
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Do you give out your mobile number?
Contrary to what many others think, allowing a patient access to your mobile phone won’t cause an avalanche of irrelevant and annoying calls about trivial matters. However, if you have a patient who might need reassurance after hours, your mobile phone will cement a relationship that will never be challenged. People with life-sapping disease states…
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The Safe Vaccination Debate – 1. Banning Unvaccinated Kids May Have Consequences 2. How Plumbing (not vaccines) Eradicated Disease 3. Aluminium in Vaccines Highly Toxic 4. Overvaccination 5. The Judy Wilyman Report
1. Professor Raina MacIntyre – Banning unvaccinated kids from child care may have unforeseen consequences OPINION: The federal government’s push for all state and territories to ban unvaccinated children from child care is a coercive measure that may disadvantage working parents and their children, and may have other unintended consequences. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says unifying…
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Losing isn’t the opposite of winning, it can be a part of winning
Vince Lombardi once said, “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” Like most kids growing up, the importance of finishing first or winning was always stressed. As a competitive person, I thought that second place was the same as last. Losing was a source of shame and bitterness. No one wants to be defined as…
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Micro-practice – Future Direction for Pharmacy
I2P has long proposed that pharmacy attracts two types of consumers – customers and patients. A little reflection will resolve this issue because clearly, customers will be attracted to the more commercialised aspects of pharmacy that compete with retailing in general, and the reason why pharmacists see their major competitors as supermarkets and variety stores.…
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The Pauline Hanson Echo Chamber and the Manufacturing of Consent in Science
Pauline Hanson recently ignited an echo chamber of media opinion, (major outrage building on previous outrage of reporters covering other reporters covering other reporters’ outrage), because she expressed a view on the ABC’s Insider Program that: “parents needed to make an ‘informed’ decision about whether or not to vaccinate their children”. “What I don’t like…
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Do we follow our own advice?
As we become more experienced in patient care, we learn to treat not only the conditions a patient presents with, but also enquire about their overall health, and give then suggestions on ways to improve it. Pharmacists are qualified in what we know as “good” health, and in ways to attain it. How closely do…
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The Safe Vaccination Debate – Evidence Suppression and Compromised Evidence 1. Judy Wilyman Report 2. Critical Literature Review 3. Censorship at NIH
1. The Judy Wilyman Report – To the UOW Executive-Dean of the Faculty Science, Medicine and Health Copied to UOW Vice-Chancellor, Paul Welings 15 March 2017 Dear Professor Alison Jones, Here is a copy of my latest newsletter describing how medical professionals are providing false information on vaccine safety to the public: Newsletter 151 Dr.…
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Value Over Profit ?
When pharmacy comes under financial pressure it always looks for a “quick fix” and it usually takes the form of concentrating resources and focus into various retail channels of activity. Even though pharmacists are criticised for expanding their retail offering and daring to create survival profits, it is a necessary activity to ensure that the…