Schizophrenia and Sahaja yoga
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2004;273;569 (16 October)
I used to work in a relatively quiet pharmacy in a small suburb. There were prescriptions but there was also some time to enjoy the job and to talk to customers
Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking ...
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2004;273;193 (7 August)
Since retiring I have taken up public speaking.
My subject is the fluctuating character of the high street since I began
my career over half a century ago. From my days as an apprentice I cover
the time during the 1960s when I was a pharmacy manager up to when I became
a proprietor. The reactions of different audiences to my talk has caused
me to adapt my material. I now include more anecdotal and nostalgic items
Improving pharmacy's image well overdue
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2004;273;162 (31 July)
I have just been reading Lynn Truss's book on
punctuation ‘Eats, shoots and leaves’. Correct punctuation
is vital if misunderstandings are to be avoided. For this reason it reminded
me of pharmaceutical labelling, and how bad that can be
Ladders have been placed against the wrong walls
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2004;273;22 (3 July)
After 30 years on the register, you can, I hope,
forgive a little reflection on some changes seen during that time. I expect,
like me, you sometimes wonder why on earth you became a pharmacist |
Keeping an open mind
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2004;272;543 (1 May)
Over 100 years ago we could have been peddling
snake oil. My “Wellcome’s pharmacists diary”, dated 1912,
indicates that just before the 1914–18 war we would have been handling
such niceties as “lead and opium lotion” or “pills with
arsenic and strychnine”
Time for a radical shake-up
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2004;272;351 (20 March)
My father, who was a schoolteacher, used to say: “Those
who can — do, and those who can’t — teach.” I have
heard various modifications to this quip, such as adding “... and
those who can’t teach — manage”. A more appropriate addition
for the pharmaceutical industry would be “... and those who can’t
do — regulate”
More common than we think
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2004;272;162 (7 February)
The two things I thought I knew about appendicitis
were that it was rare and mainly affects children and teenagers. A doctor
friend on a recent visit had confirmed these points, but I was able to
disabuse her
Cut down by medication
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2004;272;99 (24 January)
He was a visitor to my pharmacy only a few unpredictable
times a year. His name was Mr Paradine. He was fiftyish and a human dynamo.
One autumn, Mr Paradine got bronchitis |
