Knowledge

A practice library, without a till.

place

What this building is — and is not

It is not a hospital, nor a medical centre that employs doctors. It is a neighbourhood building for care, with a pharmacy on the ground floor and independent practices above.

place

Care in the neighbourhood, without leaving it

Agios Ierotheos has a square, a church, a pharmacy, consulting rooms. The building exists so that health is not something that “happens elsewhere”.

care

Diabetes next to the pharmacy — without becoming a “diabetes centre”

The same building holds pharmaceutical diabetes care, an endocrine practice, a dietetic practice and a diagnostic laboratory. It is not a department. It is adjacency with meaning.

pharmacy

What the pharmacy does when it is not merely a till

The prescription is dispensed. Then care begins: form, device, adherence, the question that does not fit a barcode.

pharmacy

Compounded medicines: what the patient should expect

A compounded preparation is not “the pharmacy cream”. It is a medicine for one identified person, with a prescription, a form and a date that have reasons.

care

Readings a physician can trust

The device is the easy part. The hard part is technique, consumables, and whether the number tells the truth.

care

Many medicines, one day

Polypharmacy is not a moral problem of old age. It is a coordination problem. The pharmacy sees it in the box, not only on the e-prescription.

professionals

For the physician who prescribes compounding or care

The ground-floor pharmacy treats difficult prescriptions as a pharmaceutical problem. It prefers a conversation before a dead-end dispense.