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Deprescribing – the New Kid on the Block!
When I see words such as “deprescribing” I immediately think of advertising spin and the need to address our “sick” society. And make no mistake, these new spin words are introduced through the medical profession to highlight doctors as “good guys” and pharmacists as “bad guys”. “Deprescribing” is simply overprescribing inappropriately by doctors, directly creating…
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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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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…