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Marketing Focus – Essays on Management and Marketing Issues
INTRODUCTION Time could be against you. Business owners and managers who have addressed the consequences of GFC (Global Financial Crisis) and the mining sector downturn with cost cutting and operations refinements may contend that they are now well placed for an economic upturn. It could be a long wait. So many indeterminable variables are, and…
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Accessing Medical Marijuana
Australia really does have a peculiar poisons regulation system, particularly when you want to access a non-psychoactive version of medical cannabis, in the form of hemp. According to this outpatient alcohol rehab, although doctors can now legally prescribe medical marijuana they can only do so if they register at the federal and state levels for…
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The University stands by Anti-Vaccination PhD Thesis
Editor’s Note: Gradually, the hoaxes involving the production of new vaccines (such as Zika virus vaccines) and the global networks that front for these activities, are slowly being made transparent. The shadowy footprint of Big Pharma allegedly seems to be both the facilitator of negative publicity that promotes its marketing objectives, and the provider of funds (directly and…
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Why are there no Medical Whistleblowers?
Editor’s Note: John Rappoport is a well known US investigative journalist.He perfected his craft through well known media networks that are simply described as “mainstream”.Like many of his peer group he has had to observe with dismay, the dismantling and corruption of his profession.His moral compass took over and he joined what is now called…
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For Future Growth & Stability – Add an Advisory Board
Pharmacy Practice requires a clearly defined infrastructure (physical and conceptual) before the product of a pharmacy practice can be delivered. Since the bottom of the last pharmacy business cycle in 2012 there has been a general realisation that pharmacy culture must change to a new paradigm and deliver a new end product – but a…
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STEM Education and Thoughts for an Advisory Board
Editor’s Note: Since pharmacists have been able to incorporate their practices. not a great deal of effort has been invested at the top end of a practice, particularly a community pharmacy practice, in the area of forward-thinking and thought leadership. This is probably because pharmacy incorporation was restricted to registered pharmacists and that meant taking…
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The Pharmacist Advocate – Happenings in a Global Pharmacy on its way to you!
Editor’s Note: In March 2016 i2P published an article by Peter Sayers regarding the globalisation of Australian community pharmacies (read http://i2p.com.au/understanding-the-impacts-of-a-global-pharmacy-invasion/ ). We also published well before the last election that Medicare privatisation issues would became the focus of that election and that the election would be basically fought on health. Future elections are likely to keep…
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Asthma Perceptions
I know that we’ve come out smelling of roses in the ethics survey this week, but our role in managing inhaler technique in asthma is under a cloud. 90 % or so of people with asthma don’t use their inhalers correctly, according to research released by the National Asthma Council. I don’t believe that this…
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Throw The Map Away And Just Use The Compass
One of my hobbies is genealogy and I find it deeply satisfying when I can apply some areas of this discipline to my professional activities. For example, the origin of surnames for when I am involved in a formal interview, I will often use the patient’s surname as a conversation starter by asking the patient…
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What Does BREXIT mean for Australia in a Health Context
That BREXIT appeared to take everyone by surprise is an understatement, with analysts still struggling to establish a pattern or trend that gives a full meaning to this new phenomenon. As Newton discovered “To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” so if BREXIT was the “equal and opposite reaction” what was the…