I haven’t written much over the past few days with yesterday’s exception, so I thought I’d follow up today before NYE.  I took a swipe at the potentially abrasive personalities that may see themselves employed as interns, and hoped my jibes might include some useful pointers that can assist them to get on better with their fellow staff. Now, I’m directing this at you preceptors/pharmacists-in-charge out there. Yes, some of you suck, too.

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I recently was involved in a discussion around whether the old style dispensaries should be changing to something with less barriers to the public, both from seeing what we do and with speaking to us. A chain in Australia experimented with that and I explain why it didn’t work. However, the practicality of dealing with people barking their drug orders to you, as well as the advent of robotic dispensing, things may change again.

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This was what I wrote in regard to a specific post on an Australian health blog Croaky. That’s if the comment is approved, it still may be under moderation. I post it because it’s an argument we’ve all heard before, and it really applies to all short sighted views of pharmacy, particularly from our fellow professionals in the healthcare industry who should know better. It always seems to come back to “why do I have to wait so long for my prescription” and “you sell dodgy supplements and bad diet products” etc. I don’t know why I bothered to write such a lengthy response, but I did it on the spur of the moment and thought I’d share it with you.

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