Britain’s biggest pharmacy used to be a family business,committed to serving society. Now, many of the company’s own staff believe that its relentless drive for profit is putting the public at riskTony was talking approximately how he wound up getting paid to care less – less approximately his sick patients, or less approximately the specialism that demanded years of study,less approximately the career he had spent decades practising. But all the talking proved something else: he still cares – a bit too much for his own good.
Remembering his 30-plus years as a pharmacist, he recalled, or in a Midlands singsong,a man who once came in with a sore on his head that kept catching on his razor.
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Source: theguardian.com