Simon O'Halloran MPS

Connect with your patients. The rest is simple.

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

@A_Tass1 @pharmerfour @ShaneJacks @Patwreid @DRugby56 @tarmac_mick Cheers AT - such is the highly accessible position we have.

“I didn’t think it is serious enough to bother the doctor” or “I don’t think I need an ambulance” is something we have all heard more than once.

Knowing when and where to refer is key.

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

1/ Person walks into pharmacy and asks for a BP check. Nothing too exciting, but pulse flagged as irregular on the machine. No CV history or antihypertensives. Discussed if they had ever been told about irregular pulse, murmur, arrhythmia or atrial fibrillation. “You mean AF?!”

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

@DRugby56 @A_Tass1 @pharmerfour @ShaneJacks @Patwreid @tarmac_mick That’s it - far from a unique encounter in pharmacy practice. Patients will always come first. In the real world we work within the healthcare system, not in isolation.

Vastly different to the lobby group narratives of turf wars and fragmented care.

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

@tarmac_mick @A_Tass1 @pharmerfour @ShaneJacks @Patwreid @DRugby56 I wouldn’t be managing one of @Sue_Dunlevy “millionaire factories” if I didn’t offer both!

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

8/

It’s nice when the system works.

Grateful to work within a great network that gets what inter-professional collaboration is about.

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

7/

A few days later the RN that admitted the patient after my call comes into the pharmacy and thanks me for sending the patient in.

Multiple PE’s and required transfer to a larger regional hospital for mgmt.

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

This quote was on an awesome cycling themed installation that I visited at the Shepparton Motor Museum some time back.

Definitely a keeper.

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

Ugh

*you’re

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T R A I N I N G D A Y

Been a while since I’d ventured to Cohuna so took on the 50km leg of the annual Bridge to Bridge on Sunday.

“Either the wind is against you, or your having a good day”

In this case it was the former and 💯 percent punishment

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C O N S U L T D A Y S

My favourite day of the week is HMR day. Deep in the mallee yesterday, quick rest pause at Nullawil silo art 😍

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

@ptzimos The Queen of the Nurburgring - Now Racing In Paradise

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@Patwreid Hold the gin, I’ll have an arsenic + strychnine & tonic Jager bomb thanks

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Will be dissecting this book:

The Practical Home Physician” today

I’m guessing it’s well over 100 years old and so far it’s holding up

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

@pharmerfour Illustrations were pretty cool

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

C O N S U M P T I O N

Tuberculosis rates in the Union. Anybody able to gauge the age of this book?

[Simon O'Halloran MPS @cdmpharmacist]

@pharmerfour Found a copy online, printed 1885. The bloke I borrowed it off reckoned it was around 150 years old. Wasn’t far off

https://t.co/hYqxCb1j7x

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N E R V O U S E X H A U S T I O N

How’s this little excerpt from “The Practical Home Physician”

Got a gauge on it somewhere around 1880s