Jeffrey Browne This is Me

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1. 1. Nation Newspaper Barbados

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   Published on: 11/7/2004   Last Visited: 11/7/2004

   Jeffrey Browne: seeing life from a new perspective.
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   TODAY, Jeffrey Browne sees life from a whole new and different perspective.
   
   But if you went through all he did, you would too.
   
   In the space of a week he had to have a repeat of an operation to correct a joined intestine and bladder; the first procedure separated the two.
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   The Jazz Festival then followed and Browne had his work cut out for him.
   
   So he grinned and bore the pain.
   
   "I psyched up myself to work through the Jazz Festival. And then at the end, I felt all the pain," he said.
   
   Browne was then diagnosed with diverticulitis, a disease in the bowel, which some doctors believe is caused by a low-fibre diet.
   
   Doctors were able to show how his intestine, after resting on the bladder, had joined with it. That caused a leak from the bowel into the bladder, resulting in discoloured urine.
   
   This meant surgery.
   
   In March, Browne was prepped and wheeled off for surgery - two procedures to be done.
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   When Browne returned to the doctor, he was told he had to be back on the table in a few hours. Tests showed fluid in his bowel, the result of a leakage.
   
   "That was traumatic because I had to recondition my mind again for surgery," he said, speaking from the City office of CS Pharmacy, where he is manager.
   
   That night he was back in surgery and doctors had to open up the same area and do a "by-pass of the bowel", where the lower bowel had to be separated from the top to allow for healing.
   
   All the while, family and friends kept close watch and the prayers were flowing.
   
   He spent a week-and-a-half recuperating in hospital.
   
   But that's when he started to go downhill and all his post-operation ailments followed.
   
   Browne was on oxygen due to the blood clots under his lungs. With fingers snapping quickly, he said doctors were taking blood by the minute - or so it seemed. His chest also got infected and he had to fight through that too.
   
   In essence, Browne had a five-week battle on his hands.
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   Describing himself as a strong person mentally, Browne said he had to call on his inner being to get through the ordeal.
   
   After the five weeks, he was sent home to recover fully - although doctors said it would take some time before he felt like his old self again.
   
   By this time though, the easy-going 56-year-old had to get accustomed to his sack, which was neatly hanging from the right side, catching all the waste from his body.
   
   This, he said, was his toughest challenge.
   
   "It is a mental thing. If you are not mentally prepared to deal with it, you are in trouble," he said.
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   Browne soon got accustomed to manoeuvring with this appendage.
   
   "In using the bag I came up with a system so there were no spills," he said, adding that during that time he had no control over his bowel movements, or bladder for that matter. So that meant changing bags very often.
   
   After mastering his movements, he then had to deal with a herniated intestine.
   
   "My intestines were coming out of my body - as much as a foot long. The first time it came out I went to the doctor and he tried to put it back in, but it felt like something was tearing out my insides," Browne said.
   
   He laughs, remembering a friend running out of the bedroom when he witnessed the hanging intestine which, on its own, would contract inside the body.
   
   His biggest fear was infection, so with gloved hands he had to take his time to clean the sack, his intestine - everything. A part of his body which is normally contained on the inside, was now exposed.
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   Browne was down to 115 pounds - from 157 - and was on 14 pills a day.
   
   Today, he is 95 per cent recovered and back up to 155 pounds.
   
   "I can now run and walk fast again. I am more conscious of myself, and I see life in a whole different perspective," he said.
   
   Surviving that experience, Browne laughs as he stretches from behind his desk: "This is a whole different stage I've stepped onto as far as determination is concerned."

2. 2. Nation Newspaper Barbados

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   Published on: 7/18/2002   Last Visited: 7/18/2002

   Jeffrey Browne, president of Barbados Association of Pharmacy Owners.
   
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   In the event of accountability, the original prescription should be in the hands of pharmacists, said president of Barbados Association of Pharmacy Owners, Jeffrey Browne.
   
   He said the pharmacists were yet to be convinced that the system imposed by the Drug Service would improve the integrity or the security of the special benefit service.
   
   "Common sense would dictate that the original prescription should be retained by the pharmacist who dispensed the medicine since he or she may at a later date have to give account of their actions," he said.
   
   Above all, Browne added, the pharmacist was accountable under the Pharmacy Act to the Chief Medical Officer for all drugs dispensed and was required to produce the original prescriptions to inspectors on demand.
   
   He said too that the Drug Service would want to verify that the claims made for medicines dispensed were supported by a genuine prescription, and if the dispute had to go before the court, then the pharmacist would be required to produce the original certificate.
   
   In the case of the Comptroller of Customs, he would want to verify zero-rated sales made under Value Added Tax were genuine and could only do so with the original prescription.
   
   The owner of CS Pharmacy also stressed that if a malpractice suit was brought against any pharmacist, his or her defence would rest on the original prescription.
   
   He said too that if the Drug service had any evidence of fraudulent prescriptions, then it should make it public.
   
   Browne said the service was welcome to send in the Auditor-General to audit the books of the 89 pharmacists and see for itself if there were any evidence of wrongdoing.
   
   He said if a pharmacist was found in that situation, then that person should be dealt with, rather than attempting to penalise everybody.
   
   "I can say that pharmacists have operated above board throughout. We have also told the Barbados Drug Service that if [it] feel[s] that there were any inconsistencies in claims, [it has] the right to audit the individual and deal with the case.
   
   "Now we are hearing that there were some prescriptions that were unaccounted for."
   
   In response to a charge by Drug Service head, Marian Hinds, that pharmacists were tardy in submitting claims for payments, Browne said that was incorrect.

3. 3. Advocate

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   Published on: 1/28/2004   Last Visited: 1/28/2004

   When contacted, Jeffrey Browne, president of the Barbados Association of Pharmacy Owners (BAPO), confirmed that his organisation had received a draft copy of the agreement, but said his committee first had to peruse it before making a final comment.
   
   "We have not been able to go though it as a committee to see what exactly is in it. I don't doubt that what we agreed to is there, but the committee has to see it," he told the Barbados Advocate.