Patients often want to make a change, but struggle with how to start. Providing them with the opportunity to express their challenges in a safe space, where their concerns are accepted and received with empathy, builds the foundation of connection and trust that’s fundamental to the process of motivational interviewing.
Remember when your classmate said he would know the answer when he saw it listed in the options? He was right. And this was the first clue that pharmacists have teleprompter brains.
Now in its 18th edition, the guide’s growth reflects both the rapid expansion of probiotic research and its increasing complexity at the pharmacy level.
Very recently, I was consulted by a fair skinned, 43-year-old woman for diagnosis and treatment of a rash on the back of her right hand. The rash had begun around two weeks ago and was spreading, itchy, sore and cracked.
