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Cold Chain II
Maintaining the cold chain is difficult out bush. I wrote in August about the high temperatures reached in the planes transporting our pharmaceuticals. Power failures are regular in many remote communities and can lead to failure of the cold chain rendering the vaccines and other refrigerated items unusable. Over time I have built up a [...]
Musical Interlude I
Welcome to another Pleasant Sunday Afternoon. I am unsure if this is best played by oboe or flute. Well the drive up the Stuart Highway can be boring to some. Today we have an extra part to our Pleasant Sunday Afternoon. And it’s for free. Actually, I am unsure if I can even give it away! Those who [...]
Top Ten: Why not? Everyone else is.
It is possibly a bit pretentious as I have only been blogging since August. And regularly blogging since mid December with only 71 posts. But everyone else has been doing it. Consider it showing my newer subscribers some earlier “quality” posts. So my ten most popular posts are: 1. “A Drive in The Country: It took this truck [...]
Hand Knitted Twitter Aggregator
Yeah, I use Twitter. It is a terrific medium. I get to speak to specialists in their field around the world every day of the week. These include Aussie Emergency Physicians that work at hospitals that take our patients. But the best use of it I have seen was by Mr Onthemoon over the Christmas [...]
Design Your Own Drug
New Year’s Day. I am sure there are more immediate needs you need the “Design Your own Drug” for. Click on the pic and start designing. If you like this post and what else you see on the blog please subscribe by RSS feed (the orange button) or by email. The email subscription is just under my [...]

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Home Medicine Reviews in the Bush

A little over a week ago I posted the first on what I hope is a series on Home Medicines Reviews out bush. This post is written by pharmacist Lisa Crisp who has been doing the Bush HMRs for the Kimberley Division of General Practice.
The Kimberley presents some unique challenges for pharmacy practice, but [...]

Posted: September 9th, 2008 under Indigenous, Professional Services, Remote health.
Tags: HMR, Indigenous, Kimberley, pharmacy, remote
Comments: 2

Rural and Remote HMR’s in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia

This is the first in a series of articles about Home Medicine Reviews and how they are, and how they should be done in the bush. They will be run in conjunction with my good friends at Auspharm
For those non-pharmacists, a home medicine review is designed to “assist consumers living at home to maximise the [...]

Posted: September 1st, 2008 under Indigenous, Professional Services, Remote health.
Tags: HMR, Indigenous, Kimberley, pharmacy, remote
Comments: 1

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Home Medicine Reviews in the Bush

Rural and Remote HMR’s in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia