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Welcome to Helix Talk episode 60. I'm your co-host Dr. Kane. And I'm Dr. Patel. And the topic

we're going to discuss today is how to get your voice heard,

pearls of professional advocacy.

Today we're talking about professional advocacy and how pharmacy plays a role in that arena.

So, Dr. Patel, why don't we get started with what exactly is professional advocacy?

So I guess it's good to define phrase professional advocacy.

It's basically taking action to state our opinions,

secure our rights as pharmacists to practice the pharmacy,

and represent all the interests that are mutual in pharmacy arena.

This matters could be regulatory in nature,

or they could be even practice related.

So regulatory examples would be things such as drug pricing, how the pharmacies acquire drugs,

and then practice related examples would be pharmacist's ability to bill the insurances as a provider.

Yeah. And even now, there's a number of relevant topics that are going about.

You mentioned drug pricing is one, but there's a ton of different topics that have come up. And even in the

last 10 years, things as simple as, you know, decreasing the amount of Tylenol available in a

Norco tablet, for example, or OTC Tylenolmax dosing, or whether in the state of Illinois,

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