In my more than ten years practising as a pharmacist, I had never experienced anything like this before. It was something that made me question whether I really wanted to be a part of the profession: I was punched in my own community pharmacy. On 10 April 2020 - Good Friday - we were open for three hours, between 14:00 and 17:00 - emergency opening hours mandated by the government, and a very small window in which to serve the increasingly long, socially distanced queue forming outside the pharmacy.
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