The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7372 p512
22 October 2005

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Pharmacists in the media

How do the public really perceive us?

From Mrs D. Laidlaw, MRPharmS

Your reader, Frances Cairns (PJ, 8 October, p441 PDF (120K)) was correct in pointing out that George in Desperate Housewives was a pharmacist, but failed to point out that his character was responsible for substituting the medication on a prescription for Bree’s husband, resulting in her husband having a heart attack.

One of my favourite moments in the series was when one of Bree’s friends found out that she had been seeing George. The friend commented that with Bree’s looks she could have chosen any man but “George — he’s just a pharmacist”.

Other prominent pharmacists on TV have been seen on last year’s series of Heartbeat, which ended with the pharmacist having a nervous breakdown, and a few years ago Peak Practice featured a particularly cantankerous and insensitive pharmacist. Perhaps, as a profession, we see ourselves differently to how the public perceive us.

Denise Laidlaw
Sunniside, Newcastle-on-Tyne

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