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Pharmacy Times Asks a Burmans Pharmacist: How Do You Encourage Patient Proactivity?
The key to encouraging patient proactivity at Burmans Pharmacy is to stress medication adherence, director of compounding Vince Canzanese, RPh, explains.
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“It’s the physician, it’s the pharmacist, and it’s the patient working together for the common goal of better health for the patient," he says.
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