Doctors’ groups step up anti-pharmacist rhetoric across the Tasman

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Doctors’ groups step up anti-pharmacist rhetoric across the Tasman

Jonathan
Chilton-Towle
A Queensland trial in pharmacy has upset doctors
A Queensland trial in pharmacy has upset doctors CR: Dellex/Wikimedia Commons

A spat between doctor and pharmacist representative bodies in Australia over pharmacist-prescribing trials in Queensland has spilled into the mainstream media. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

The doctors’ lobby are the ones kicking up a stink. I think in one interview early on, they referred to pharmacists as having the same level of traini