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Self Care – Its Time Has arrived With Positive Health Outcomes by Design
Wishing vs. doing By giving people more ways to speak up and more tools to take action, we keep decreasing the gap between what we wish for and what we can do about it. If you’re not willing to do anything about it, best not to waste the energy wishing about it. Seth Godin Self…
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US Clinic Design: The Exam Room
The US style of walk-in clinic that is now starting to gain wide acceptance has at its heart a room they call the Exam Room. In Australia we do not seem to have yet settled on an official design, but some pharmacies have dedicated rooms they call treatment rooms, counselling rooms or consulting rooms, or…
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Vitamin D – Why Can’t We Be Proactive?
Vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin”, forms the core of one of the longest fortification stories in the nutritional sphere. New research continues to support the ever-wider benefits for the vitamin. The naysayers continue to attempt to disagree with research results. Why are we so hesitant about embracing the benefits of vitamin D to our patients?…
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Fighting Quackery
I’m not popular with many cancer patients, particularly those who love their alternative practitioners. Many of us seem to want to believe in voodoo and witchcraft. We will happily throw away hard-earned cash, swallow buckets of pills and submit ourselves to weird and fanciful ceremonies – just because our naturopath, homeopath, chiropractor, intuitive healer or…
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The Marketing Mix – A Starting Point For a Re-Invented Pharmacy With No Ownership or Location Rules
Producers and consumers In the short run, it’s more fun to be a consumer. It sure seems like consumers have power. The customer is always right, of course. The consumer can walk away and shop somewhere else. In the long run, though, the smart producer wins, because the consumer comes to forget how to produce.…
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A 10-Year Clinical Pharmacist Service Plan – Scottish government Style
The referendum in Scotland deciding on whether it remains a part of the United Kingdom or becomes a sovereign nation once more, is expected to be an almost “line-ball” result, which means that half of that nation will be disappointed, whatever the result. The date chosen for the referendum is not just a random date.…
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Don’t Let False Assumptions Cloud Your Thinking
One afternoon, a woman noticed two small boys on the front step of a house. They were in their school uniforms carrying their backpacks and she assumed were going home after school. They were on their tip-toes trying to reach the doorbell with a stick. “Poor little lads, they can’t get in,” she thought. So…
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Hype And High Water
Market bubbles, busts and waves have a common element – hype. When emotions, rather than fundamentals are driving the marketplace it is time to take pause, and stock. Now is that time. Clearing the inventory of current marketing, price, merchandise and promotional strategies is sage advice. Reassurances that high prices are founded on solid foundations,…
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HPV Vaccine and One Young Australian Woman Becomes Another Victim
Editor’s Note: The following material has been prepared by Judy Wilyman and it appears in i2P because it illustrates vaccine damage to children, and their families, first hand. Damage that is concealed from politicians and health care professionals. These damaged people have formed themselves into a fighting group – as is their right. i2P would…
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Health Coaches Will Gain Acceptance in Supermarkets Because of PGA Policies
The Australian College of Pharmacy recently held a conference in Hobart. Within the conference structure was a panel of Pharmacy Guild personalities who fielded questions on the future of HMR’s and RMMR’s and what restrictions may be in place within the 6CPA. The general consensus appeared to be that: “It was highly likely that the…