Last Updated: Monday, July 6, 2009 | 12:27 PM PT Comments384Recommend69CBC News
UBC's architecture school helped design the new women's-only pharmacy. (CBC)What is believed to be North America's first women's-only pharmacy is set to open Tuesday in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Caryn Duncan, executive director of Vancouver Women's Health Collective, said a lot of women told her they do not go to pharmacies in the troubled neighbourhood because many of them focus on dispensing methadone to heroin addicts.
"Women felt, 'I want a woman pharmacist. I want to know that when I walk in the door, I'm going to be getting sound women-centred care from a pharmacist. I can talk to her about emergency contraception or a vaginal infection, something that is very personal and intimate,'" said Duncan
The welcoming atmosphere of the new full-service pharmacy was designed in conjunction with the University of British Columbia's school of architecture.
Lu's: A Pharmacy for Women, which will be owned and operated by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective, is named after longtime volunteer Lucette Hansen, 85.
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- MotherForTruth
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Hmmm.....I don't see the point. What is a pharmacy doing dispensing Methadone- it's not a Methadone clinic. I've been in a mess of pharmacies that had women pharmacists. And unless the pharmacist has Christian beliefs, you can get that abortion pill. (Oops- gotta remember to use those euphemisms- I meant "emergency contraception") Sounds rather odd.
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- unclecharlie
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I guess they have a point, but men probably feel the same when they go get their Viagra refilled.
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I don't know, pjacobs -- I hear what you are saying, but I am not sure you can equate the embarrassment of asking a woman for one's Viagra refill is quite as uncomfortable as a woman asking a man what one should do about "that itchy, fungus-y thing growing inside [her] vagina..."
In fact, at a certain age, I suspect I might even feel a bit of vain, silly pride at chatting with a woman about my Viagra prescription...as in: "yeah, I find a little BOOST is helpful, especially if I want to take more than one trip through the buffet, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN (waggles bushy white eyebrows at nauseated female pharmacist)...
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I would like that . I bet they will have chocolate .
