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    Tag: Pharmacists

    Bad medicine? How pharmacists in North Queensland will diagnose and prescribe for asthma

    April 3, 2023

    At the heart of the North Queensland pharmacist prescribing trial is bad medicine fuelling the risks of misdiagnosis, inappropriate prescribing and care breakdown. Not all…

    Scrap the pharmacy prescribing experiment: Sign the AusDoc petition

    April 3, 2023

    At the time of writing, nearly all the details surrounding a reckless experiment in Australian healthcare have been released — save how its safety will…

    175 Qld pharmacists sign up for prescribing training

    March 23, 2023

    Pharmacists have rushed to join Queensland’s pharmacy prescribing course, with enough pharmacists applying to the state health department to completely book out the first training…

    Why pharmacist protocol prescribing is deeply flawed — a GP’s view

    March 20, 2023

    Protocol prescribing is the basis for all the recent proposals for pharmacist prescribing. Whether it be antibiotics for UTIs, scripts for the oral contraceptive pill,…

    Revealed: The training pharmacists will undergo to prescribe independently of doctors

    March 17, 2023

    It is an 11-page document drawn up by Queensland Health and, in its way, it is a blueprint for a revolution. It details the training…

    Pharmacy delusion: Flogging detox tonics, bogus immunity ‘boosters’, vitamins and other therapeutic junk

    March 10, 2023

    How do we do it? How do we allow the blindingly obvious to be so readily denied, or at least ignored? For our purposes, and…

    Dr Barbara Mintzes (PhD)

    ‘Extra work for no compensation’: Drop in GPs reporting drug reactions

    February 8, 2023

    GPs’ involvement in reporting adverse drug reactions to the TGA has declined massively over the past 20 years, research shows. The analysis of TGA reports…

    Dr Paul Muthiah.

    GPs will be extinct by the time I retire — so who will provide my healthcare?

    February 6, 2023

    They say you should never kick a person when they’re down. However, this seems to carry no weight when the person down is an entire…

    An overture to pharmacists: How do I love thee?

    January 27, 2023

    How do I love thee? Let me count the ways … I love you for your informed dispensing heights, reading illegible scripts the doctor writes. × Welcome to AusDoc.…

    Times are changing — and pharmacists treating UTIs may be the next step

    January 6, 2023

    Maybe times have changed. I have been following the correspondence about pharmacists treating UTIs with interest. It seems reasonable on the surface — if you…

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