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Losing members
From Mr P. M. W. Clarke, MRPharmS
The profession is going through uncertain times, and nothing highlights
it as much as the loss of members.
I found it most disconcerting to see the list (PJ, 29 March 2008,
pp378– 81),
of more
than 500 members who have not paid the annual fee and have been expelled
from membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Whatever their reasons, and they must be heartfelt, it seems different from
the attitude of members decades ago, when they seemed proud to belong to an
honourable society. In those days a good proportion in community pharmacy were
or aspired to be proprietor pharmacists.
Nowadays, a high proportion of active members are employees, with less influential
input, locally, to the profession to which they belong.
Apart from resentment about the expense involved to remain a member — and
many of the 500 expulsions seem to have addresses abroad — I can only
wonder if there is a widespread dislike or fear at the way the pharmacy profession
is heading.
Peter Clarke
Naumur, France |
The
Pharmaceutical Journal