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Poll: I last made a dispensing error..... : 03/01/2009 : AusPharm oftens wonders just how frequently dispensing errors are made. While today's poll won't tell the whole story we'd still be interested to know when you made your last dispensing error.
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Guild Group appoints new director : 06/01/2009 : The Guild Group has added the experienced Mr. George Venardos to its Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2009.
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Here's another one of our most popular AusPharm CE activities : 05/01/2009 : Are you looking for something to do in a quiet moment through January?
We've made it available to ALL registered AusPharm members (not just premium members) for THIS WEEK ONLY (until 12/1/09). Click here to do this Continuing Education activity now. Click here to visit the AusPharm Continuing Education page where there are links to all of our CE activities.
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Financial Review goes after the Guild : 02/01/2009 :
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12/12/2008 Pearl: 'Selling' generic substitutes
'You want to buy a roll of Kodak film... will two be enough?' That line we were taught many moons ago, at Kodak school, and you might not be surprised that they did often take two rolls. (And have you stopped beating your partner?) There are ways, and there are ways of asking questions that prompt towards the 'right' answer. Watch any barrister in action.
Where it is appropriate, let it be said. More...
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Which organisations are responsible for ensuring high standard practice and reducing excessive workloads? Do they work well together?" More
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Computer alerts : 06/01/2009 : Over the last week or two some 'listers have sent along their custom made computer alerts (here).
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I am the very model of a psycho - pharmacologist : 05/01/2009 :
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The man from Kaomagma : 31/12/2008 : In a weak moment and in the spirit of the 'silly season' AusPharm invited 'listers to send along posts that didn't meet our usual 'pharmacy relevant' criteria and might be 'interesting or quirky or just plain weird'.
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"I do think our profession has a tendency to shape us. Not that we’re all doppelgangers. Far from it. Even within the profession we have somehow categorised ourselves into groups – us, them, retailers, discounters, professionals, community, hospital, consultant, owners, employee
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For this poll we'll define an 'error' as 'wrong drug' or 'wrong directions on label' that actually leaves the dispensary (but not necessarily the pharmacy). Please tick the relevant box in today's poll below. 
Why not have a look at one of our most popular CE activities for 2008, 
AusPharm CE will be back in 2009 with approximately 40 new activities, mostly selected on the basis of requests from 'listers during 2008. 
AusPharm gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the sponsors of our CE program, 
In a curiously timed and very long article (The Amazing Power of Australia's Chemists) the Dec 30 - Jan 4 Weekend Edition Financial Review takes a big swipe at the Pharmacy Guild. 
One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the rascally behavior that was going on. So he called one of His angels and sent the angel to Earth for a time.
: Peter the Pearlcaster says: 
Pushing generics is a Good Thing -- not only for our patients, also towards keeping us in business. Helping the boss's bottom line protects an employee pharmacist's job too. There are a few ways of going about this that have proven successful.
to bring the profession's "sausage factories" to account, and David Brown of Guild Insurance's 
"To this point, I have seen little evidence of pharmacy organisations and government working together to arrive at sensible solutions with well defined outcomes addressing the issue of excessive workloads.
(Capt.) David Haworth sent us 
Well, Sydney pharmacist Bruce Moffat (that's him at right) sent along this epistle in response, gratuitously including his preliminary comments:
s, whatever. What has however become common to us all is the amazing ability to handle ridiculous amounts of work in near miraculous time frames. To stay cool under pressure, and to roll with the punches. Crisis? No worries. We are the problem solvers, and not one at a time, either. We can process information at almost the same speed as a Pentium Intel QuadCore®."