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Pharmacist

Pharmacist Mike Smith prepares medicine in a Dunedin pharmacy in 2009. Pharmacists dispense prescription medicines and advise customers on the best and safest way to use them.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 24 July 2009, p. 17

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Allison Kirkman, Health practitioners – Allied health practitioners, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28339/pharmacist (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allison Kirkman, published 29 March 2011, updated 28 April 2026.