‘This is hope not science’: How pharmacists will treat nausea and vomiting

Dr Evan Ackermann deconstructs the protocol for pharmacists to diagnose and treat acute nausea and vomiting during a short $20 consult.

You can pretend that opposition to the radical expansion of pharmacists’ involvement in diagnosis and prescribing in North Queensland is nothing more than a turf war.

But here, Dr Evan Ackermann gives the clinical arguments about its dangers, deconstructing the protocol that Queensland Health has provided for pharmacists to diagnose and treat acute nausea and vomiting during a short $20 consult.