Tag Archives: pharmacy

Are pharmacists really so inward looking?

November 11, 2009 – 1:43 pm

I have a story in the Crikey bulletin today, that asks the question: Are pharmacists the most defensive, insular and change resistant of all the health professions?
It’s about how health reform advocate John Menadue was “disinvited” from speaking at an Australian College of Pharmacy meeting, after making a provocative speech to a pharmacy conference, as [...]

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Why aren’t we making better use of pharmacy?

October 15, 2009 – 7:33 pm

Why isn’t Australia making better use of its pharmacy resources?
That’s the question on health consultant Simon Burrow’s mind as he jetsets across the world. He’s picked up a few ideas from South Africa and the United States that he suggests might be useful/relevant for health reform in Oz.
He writes:
“The recent primary healthcare debate and [...]

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Have you heard the one about pharmacists, a wall, and a bag of money?

April 16, 2009 – 9:04 am

Simon Burrow has sent in this comment on the recent Crikey article by CHOICE’S Michael Johnston calling for the community’s interests to be factored into forthcoming Government-Guild negotiations:
“It’s a well known fact that if you want to break a wall down quickly, place
a pharmacist on one side and a bag of money on another. Demolition [...]

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Putting the pharma into pharmacy: Simon Burrow

March 18, 2009 – 10:32 am

With so much media, research and professional focus upon the ties between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession, pharma’s wooing of other health professions is often overlooked. It’s a timely issue, given the push by other professions to expand their influence over medication prescribing and patients’ medication choices.
Here is how it works, according to [...]

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