I am not going to be explaining how a symptom like sore throat can present. To a market woman, I will gladly break it down. But to you, it is unnecessary.
What I am against is the subtle jab you think you can throw at pharmacists, which is outright wrong. Very unbefitting of you.
If you want to express your usual contempt for a sister profession like pharmacy, at least use a stronger example. Use emergency conditions. Use surgical conditions. Use complex medical conditions with unclear referral pathways.
Not sore throat.
It is very funny that you think a patient must walk into a hospital to see a physician as the first stop for a sore throat. If they do, fine. If they come to the pharmacy first, also fine.
And I can say this with my full chest as a community pharmacist: in many sore throat cases, the same physicians you are invoking are essentially doing symptom assessment, ruling out red flags, treating, and moving on.
So what exactly is so outrageous about a pharmacist being the first point of care for that same complaint?
How many sore throat cases actually progress to anything beyond uncomplicated self-limiting illness that a pharmacist cannot safely screen and manage or appropriately refer?
Give the data, at least let us deal in data.
This your tweet is unbefitting.