How do you serve the Deaf community as a pharmacist?
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The word – communication plays such a major role in the profession of a pharmacist. As I reflect on my student days, I was more concerned about learning drug pharmacology and disease states that I had neglected the importance of good communication skills. Let’s face it, the only time you really think about communications skill...
Ending Tobacco Addiction by the Tobacco Free Generation, Endgame Paradigm: Introductory Paper & Opportunities for Youth Leadership
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Tobacco Written by Dr. Koong Heng Nung - Founding Director of the Tobacco Free Generation International & Medical Director of Koong & Ho Surgery Pte Ltd. Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital A common social challenge the youth face is addictions especially to nicotine. The legal acceptability of nicotine, superimposed onto the experimental phase of a life...
My Reflections as a Pharmacist Following An Experience on the Tobacco Free Generation Endgame Advocacy
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Tobacco Written by Ms Huang Wenya Naomi, Singapore TFG Advocate since 2019 350km away from home, in Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, I started my first advocacy efforts for the Tobacco Free Generation. Our audience included respected members from the Malaysian Women’s Action on Tobacco and Health and young leaders from the Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society- Young...
Putting yourself in a junior doctors’ shoes: new ways to promote pharmacist-doctor collaborations
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Interprofessional CollaborationsPharmacist Strategies Effective interprofessional collaborations, such as those between doctors and pharmacists, improves patient outcomes (Reeves, 2016). Yet it can be challenging, as junior pharmacists, to know how to best approach these collaborations especially when it involves telling a doctor about a prescribing error. As a pharmacist and health professions education researcher, along with my...
Cancer, Intermittent Fasting and the Ketogenic Diet
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Written by Sera Chin – Dietitian In a scientific plant-based nutrition and medicine congress (VegMed 2018) held in Berlin this April, intermediate results from an on-going preliminary study on the effects of intermittent fasting with a plant-based diet in the treatment of cancer were presented. One of the participants of the study, who was in...
