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Suzanne Holt, 60, is a Barrington-based pharmacist nearing 40 years on the register, and an award-winning musician. In her solo career as a pianist, Mrs Holt has performed across the country and in the US but, in April this year, decided she wanted to organise a concert involving performers from the pharmacy sector, and that she did. In April, Romantic Music with Suzanne Holt and friends featured pharmacist David Bui on violin and pharmacy technician Kathleen Lockwood on cello.
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Why recognising the signs of dehydration is important...
