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Hello everyone - I've been contacted by a Freelance journalist who is writing a piece about Type 2 Diabetes for a pharmacists trade journal and specifically on the role that Pharmacists could play in helping to promote lifestyle medicine treatment options such as Low Carb. She contacted me to get a patient's perspective.
My considered response to her was:
"Patients just want workable options. The role of the healthcare professionals should be to help patients to explore and access all available options. A pharmacist who asks a diabetic collecting a repeat prescription if they have heard of the Low Carb Programme and then providing them with some literature - that could be very powerful."
I genuinely think that whilst pharmacists are mongers of the drugs and might not feel incentivised to wean people off them, they can often be very pragmatic and more up to date than the GP's. Also existing diabetics may see their pharmacist 3-4 times as often as they see their GP or DN.
Anyway - I'm not the only patient with a perspective I'm sure, so would welcome any thoughts or experiences (good and bad) on this subject, which I will endeavour to pass on. Thanks in advance.
My considered response to her was:
"Patients just want workable options. The role of the healthcare professionals should be to help patients to explore and access all available options. A pharmacist who asks a diabetic collecting a repeat prescription if they have heard of the Low Carb Programme and then providing them with some literature - that could be very powerful."
I genuinely think that whilst pharmacists are mongers of the drugs and might not feel incentivised to wean people off them, they can often be very pragmatic and more up to date than the GP's. Also existing diabetics may see their pharmacist 3-4 times as often as they see their GP or DN.
Anyway - I'm not the only patient with a perspective I'm sure, so would welcome any thoughts or experiences (good and bad) on this subject, which I will endeavour to pass on. Thanks in advance.