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Pharmacists practise health care with their own style of two-tier system.
At the higher level they use computers and phones to talk to customers, look up records and fill medicine prescriptions. Come down two steps and they are on the public level. Five padded chairs relax a waiting area in the Pharmasave store in this town of 3,000 in southern Saskatchewan. Off to one side is a consultation room for more private talk. Bradshaw and her fellow pharmacists say they want to get off the pedestal.