SEPTEMBER, Edition # 33, 2001

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Rollo Manning takes a close personal look at the future for pharmacy as a profession. Rollo has become despondent of late at the lack of input pharmacists seem to want to take to planning their future working path. The contribution pharmacists are making to health care concerns him and he wants you, the reader, to wake up (his words) and say whether you think there is a future!
Have a read at the page, Job of a Pharmacist, and then post your thoughts to the Newsletter Reader's Forum.

Are you awake!
Is anybody out there listening?
Sometimes I wonder!
Who really cares about tomorrow, or are we just interested in the dollars today? The horizon of pharmacists' in this day and age is not far away.
The ability to be concerned about anything after "today" seems limited.
The minutia of today overpowers all thoughts of tomorrow.
And yet who cares?
The original thought processes of pharmacists is limited.
The ability to repeat what happened yesterday is very good.
Have you just become good at repeating practices of the past and never concerned about whether anyone is getting any healthier, because that is what you see as your "job".
If these statements annoy you - let me know.
I would like to know if anyone is awake!
Sometimes I really wonder about the future of pharmacy as a profession.
It seems to me that the activities that make up the job will become a thing of the past with technology.
This week I am viewing a system that fills dose administration aids.
No need for a technician or a pharmacist to check the fill, the system is designed by pharmacists and the quality checks meet "best practice".
The medicine, the label, the record of the dispense can all be done by technology.
Heck, what is left?
Well try talking to others!
Be a part of a health care team and remind the world what you learnt at University, and why you have knowledge that is needed for better outcomes. Just take fifteen minutes each day to talk to another health professional.
You may be surprised at how little they know about what a pharmacist does, or is capable of doing.
Try it.
Go on.
Let me know the outcome for next edition.
ends
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