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Role of pharmacists The working session Sholmes went to focused on the role of pharmacists in promoting rational use of medicine. Like the nurse, the

Role of pharmacists The working session Sholmes went to focused on the role of pharmacists in promoting rational use of medicine. Like the nurse, the

Essential medicines and therapeutic guidelines In the next room Whatsup had been taking meticulous notes of presentations and discussions from a session on ‘Methods to

Medicine as magic However, Sholmes also thought the problem of reckless antibiotic prescriptions may be a bit more complex, with purely commercial motives only one

Day Three: Top-down approach from governments and professionals In the morning as Sholmes and Dr Whatsup came down from their hotel room for breakfast they

Doctor-patient dynamics The third parallel workshop in the post-lunch session was on the theme of ‘Methods and tools for generating knowledge’. The first presenter described

Know Thy Patient In the post-lunch session Whatsup chose to go to a workshop on ‘Communicating in the 2020s’. This was interesting to him simply

Of pills and profits Illustrating the role of money in deciding how medicine is marketed and dispensed was a study from Indonesia, part of a

Learning how to learn While Whatsup absorbed all this rich discussion and insights, Sholmes was in the other workshop titled ‘Improving use at local level:

What is medicine? What is health? Speaking on the theme of ‘what is medicine, what is health?’, the next speaker said that the biomedical model

The Workshops It was time for the conference workshops to begin. The overarching theme was ‘Empowering People to Improve the Use of Medicines’. Sholmes and

Food as medicine The “School Garden and Microbial World: Healthy nutrition” project that began in 2018 taught the children to sow, take care of gardens

Day Two: Bottom-up approaches from communities “Walking on your own feet, building the well-being of everyone, promoting autonomy, health, and human dignity: these are the

Role of pharmacists The working session Sholmes went to focused on the role of pharmacists in promoting rational use of medicine. Like the nurse, the

Essential medicines and therapeutic guidelines In the next room Whatsup had been taking meticulous notes of presentations and discussions from a session on ‘Methods to

Medicine as magic However, Sholmes also thought the problem of reckless antibiotic prescriptions may be a bit more complex, with purely commercial motives only one

Day Three: Top-down approach from governments and professionals In the morning as Sholmes and Dr Whatsup came down from their hotel room for breakfast they

Doctor-patient dynamics The third parallel workshop in the post-lunch session was on the theme of ‘Methods and tools for generating knowledge’. The first presenter described

Know Thy Patient In the post-lunch session Whatsup chose to go to a workshop on ‘Communicating in the 2020s’. This was interesting to him simply

Of pills and profits Illustrating the role of money in deciding how medicine is marketed and dispensed was a study from Indonesia, part of a

Learning how to learn While Whatsup absorbed all this rich discussion and insights, Sholmes was in the other workshop titled ‘Improving use at local level:

What is medicine? What is health? Speaking on the theme of ‘what is medicine, what is health?’, the next speaker said that the biomedical model

The Workshops It was time for the conference workshops to begin. The overarching theme was ‘Empowering People to Improve the Use of Medicines’. Sholmes and

Food as medicine The “School Garden and Microbial World: Healthy nutrition” project that began in 2018 taught the children to sow, take care of gardens

Day Two: Bottom-up approaches from communities “Walking on your own feet, building the well-being of everyone, promoting autonomy, health, and human dignity: these are the







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