Earlier this month, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia branded AMA Queensland a “cabal of non-grassroots doctors” who were trashing the reputation of pharmacists for no good reason.

This followed the publication of a survey that found at least 240 women had presented to doctors after having an adverse experience under the state’s controversial pharmacist UTI prescribing trial.

Here, the president of AMA Queensland, Dr Maria Boulton, and its vice-president, former pharmacist Dr Nick Yim, respond.

We both write this article as doctors with pharmacy in our heritage.