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Originally Posted by SolomonQ  ??? is that the best one can hope,
Care of the patient can be done working at any pharmacy and if one is really that good they should share their expertise and service among as many people as possible and also building a relationship with the surgery usually means the receptionsists not the doctors, and even some of them talk to you like your trash, maybe because you need them, they dont really need you (as a pharmacist). |
Depends how you talk to them, and what you talk to them about. If all your calls are prescription focussed and to tell them that they've done something wrong then of course they'll not look forward to hearing from you.
Don't phone up about every statin/antibiotic interaction - just get the go ahead to advise patients to leave off the statin whilst taking the antibiotic (and for a few days longer if that is the surgeries wish).
Tell them that you're concerned about a patient and would like a chat with the doc after surgery and it's a way in
e.g. that a dossette box isn't working - and that your team is happy to give that patient his medicine on a daily basis - and your pharmacy then becomes an integral part of the team looking after that patient.
Yes it's harder for a locum to go down this route unless it's a regular locum and you have rest of the team with you.
Jeff