The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7366 p309
10 September 2005

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· Homoeopathy (5)
· Pharmacy practice
· Reciprocity
· NICE
· Retention fees
· Sexual health
· Media representation (3)
· Emergency supplies
· The Society

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Retention fees

A good time to leave

From Mr C. R. Legg, MRPharmS

Like Christopher Palin (PJ, 20 August, p227), I fall into the 44-year trap. After a life spent at the bench, I had cut the work load and was intending to leave the Register in December 2004. By popular demand I decided to give it another year, or until I was forced out by a lack of written proof of being fit for practice. Any mechanic will tell you that the MOT was introduced to get all the old cars off the road, and there is no doubt in most minds that older pharmacists are now seen, by the powers that be, as scrap metal. So we have to go, but when? And if we cut all our professional ties, will we really miss it? According to my retired friends and wife (ex-consultant) — a resounding no!

There will be absolutely no point in paying through the nose for The Journal until I hopefully reach the 50-year pearly gates. There is another exciting world out there so roll on this December, or 2006 at the latest. My client friends will lose a pair of safe hands and the Society another avid fee payer. I thought I cared but gradually my mind has begun to relish no more rota, no more days without breaks, no more companies to chase for payment. I could go on. Perhaps I will think, “thanks for the memory”, but I am going to be too busy doing what I want to for a change.

Chris Legg
Sudbury, Suffolk

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