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Wider role for pharmacists in Australia sees angry reactions from doctors
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In Australia, most suburban shopping centres or inner-city malls have at least one pharmacy.
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SYDNEY - At his pharmacy south of Sydney, Mr David Heffernan is on a first-name basis with many of his customers and often finds himself serving people who first entered his store as toddlers with their parents.
But Mr Heffernan, who has owned his practice in Culburra Beach for 20 years, is quick to admit that he and his fellow pharmacists in Australia have “been taken for granted for a long time”.
