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Doctors’ groups step up anti-pharmacist rhetoric across the Tasman
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Doctors’ groups step up anti-pharmacist rhetoric across the Tasman
Wednesday 1 June 2022, 11:24 AM
A Queensland trial in pharmacy has upset doctors [image: 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