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Dr. Cameron Loy, President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, said that pharmacists tended to avoid health checkups among pharmacists. "Health checks are not comparable to the purchase of toothpaste, hair dye or vitamins, but are part of the continuity of care, long-term commitment, that general practice offers" , Dr. Loy "These pharmacies are motivated by money, the opportunity to have more people in the store to buy other things."
But the Pharmacists Guild of Australia says that the claims come from the "self" of the RACGP. "Doctors need to get over it," said Greg Turnbull, spokesman for the guild, at the AAP
"Pharmacists Do not Try to Take Their Business." 19659002] Mr. Turnbull rejected the claims that pharmacists only provided health checks to make money
"I do not see too many doctors working on a voluntary basis," he said.
"The pity is that most doctors and pharmacists have good relationships."
However, Dr. Loy argues that there are long-term dangers for patients who have not had not their doctors regularly revise their health needs.
"I had patients who did health checks elsewhere and who were left puzzled by the results because they did not not very meaningful, they were not contextualized, "he said.
Mr. Turnbull denied that health risks were at stake.
