First female university grad reflects on pharmacy’s ‘incredible’ evolution

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First female university grad reflects on pharmacy’s ‘incredible’ evolution

Margaret Sumich with the graduating class of 1965. Photo: Otago School of Pharmacy
Margaret Sumich with the graduating class of 1965. Photo: Otago School of Pharmacy

One of the first graduates of the University of Otago’s degree course in pharmacy, Margaret Sumich, reflects on the transformation of the profession over the past 60 years. She talks to reporter Anna Lee

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