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The ‘lost profession’ – or essential?

Megan Haggan 06/10/2023

Australian pharmacy in the 1940s. Image courtesy of the Local Studies Collection, Sutherland Shire Libraries.

It’s 1943 and the pharmacy sector is talking about scope of practice and how it meshes with the profession’s retail aspect “Vague fears for the future have been expressed recently by persons interested in the well-being of pharmacy,” the Australian Journal of Pharmacy warned in an October 1943 editorial. “Some speak of pharmacy as a

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