Qiri Journal

Writing from the bench.

Citation-backed writing for and from Australian community pharmacy. New essays as we have something worth saying.

19 May 2026 · 5 min read

The missing layer

Overflow capacity in Australian community pharmacy

Hospitals built surge capacity. General practice built after-hours. Community pharmacy never built anything. When the bench is overloaded the only release valves are still the same two it had thirty years ago. Why that gap is becoming uneconomic to leave open.

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17 May 2026 · 5 min read

Pharmacy software's lost decade

Every adjacent industry got rebuilt around AI. Dispensing didn't.

Square, Stripe, Harvey, Abridge — every adjacent industry got rebuilt in the last fifteen years. Pharmacy quietly didn't. Why the dispensing system stayed stuck on 1990s architecture, and what's finally changing the math.

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5 May 2026 · 4 min read

The Bench Is Breaking

A 2026 look at Australian pharmacist burnout

Approximately 1 in 2 pharmacists report burnout. Approximately 9 in 10 CDSS alerts get overridden. The tools meant to be the safety net have become the noise the bench has to filter. What the data says — and what comes next.

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