Yes, very glad of that move. Unfortunately pharmacy treads the line between providing NHS services (which we do not make enough money to keep a business running on) and trying to carve out a profit from our shops to pay the wages and keep providing the services.Geoff wrote:Only just found this thread...ficklefiend, are you aware that the NHS (or, more precisely, the Government) are currently reviewing their opinion of homeopathy?
There was a Government report last summer, I remember (I'll see if I can find it), that basically said to the homeopathers: "we think it's woo, prove that it works, or we're gonna dump it", IIRC.
So the pro-homeopathy contingent will not just disappear because the NHS gets rid. It will hang on as long as there is profit to be made and pharmacists that push for it.
The profession bemoans the lack of respect we are given, but I honestly don't think we help ourselves with the amount of hocum we engage in our everyday practice. Many either don't educate themselves, or keep quiet about what they know.
However, it is very difficult sometimes. What is the best way to tell someone who comes in looking for a multivitamin for his wife to help her appetite, and then begins to tell you about her cancer, that multivitamins do nothing for appetite and you have nothing else to offer? People very often come into the pharmacy looking for a bit of the old witchdoctoring we historically did. We were the poor man's doctor, now often the place that they will come when the doctor sends them away with empty hands, or where the doctor sends them when he wants rid!
It's been an interesting year (we do a year's training under a pharmacist before registration), and I've enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The next step is to try and actually find a job, but let's focus on passing the exam first!
. And then when they come back, they can 
...or was that chimpanzees?
