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On a different track but the same branchline:

My wife goes on several different message boards and waded into an argument. (She was a pharmacy assistant for 12 years)

A nurse/midwife wanted to know whether to report her local pharmacy because she had been in the queue and had heard the counter assistant give susch bad advice she had had to step in.
When the pharmacist was called he had a go at the nurse/midwife for being rude to his staff.

The advice that was wrong was:

Yes you can give Calpol and Sudafed together!

Whereas the nurse knew that Sudafed contains Paracetamol!


I find that nurses are the bane of my life. They tend to think that as they go out to see people that they are much more worthy than me and should therefore be able to walk though the door jump the queue of people already waiting for scripts and get whatever they want whether they have a Rx or not.
They also tend to tell people that they'll order a Rx and then forget or just generally give bad advice.


Back on track:

I think the problem is that no-one sees pharmacists as anything other than pill pushers.
The multiples are all on an MUR push at the moment and the number of times that you hear, "What does the pharmacist know about the tablets?" is unbelievable.

There is another thread on this board about the Pharm Soc elections which discusses pharmacists in the public eye. We are not seen as professionals so why interview a pharmacist on the news?