Pharmacy Podcast Network

The Inflection Point of Pharmacy: A Special Conversation with RxSafe CEO Bill Holmes

Bill Holmes is the founder and CEO of RxSafe. An engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, Bill is a veteran of the pharmaceutical automation industry. Prior to founding RxSafe, he was integral to the success of the most recognized pharmacy automation and storage solutions companies including ddn, OmniCell, SupplyPro, and Pyxis. With over 100 US Patents to his name, Bill is constantly looking for innovative solutions to the industry’s most challenging needs. An innovative engineer and entrepreneur, Bill Holmes has developed over 150 US patents that benefit pharmacy staff and patients throughout the country. As the Founder and CEO of RxSafe, Bill designs, builds, and manufactures automated storage and dispensing equipment — including RapidPak Rx (a strip packaging system), RxSafe (a vial filling and storage system), RxVault (a narcotics and high-shrink drug storage system), and RxRWC. 
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From ACPHS to Elevation Oncology | Occupation Station

In this episode of Occupation Station, 2008 ACPHS grad Shawn Leland talks about the personal, educational and professional ways he has been inspired to help people live longer, healthier lives. Some of that inspiration came to him through a clerkship rotation that didn’t go as planned and instead landed him at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. While engaged in his studies, he was also seeing real health challenges in people he loved. He witnessed how important drug therapies were in helping them to live their best lives. After graduation, Leland says he experienced a big realization during a European Society of Medical Oncology conference and got an idea that led him to pull together the right researchers and financers to create a tumor agnostic drug development strategy. Even the name of Leland’s company, Elevation Oncology, comes from a very inspired place. Leland has frequently been inspired along his career path; now he shares that inspiration with current and prospective ACPHS students.
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Salah El-Saheb ’06, PharmD | Occupation Station

While his work is always changing to adapt to industry needs, a typical day for ACPHS grad Salah El-Saheb involves working with biostatisticians, data scientists and clinical operations. Salah is Executive Director, Evidence Generation Leader at Genentech and his goal is to find more efficient and effective ways to conduct drug trials to bring therapies out to patients as quickly as possible. While the work is complicated, his underlying desire is ultimately to get help to those who are sick with as little discomfort on their part as possible. His skill at partnering with medical colleagues to benefit patients comes from his experience in understanding drugs and his own patient interactions. In this episode of Occupation Station, Salah talks about the work and the education that prepared him for his current role. He also has advice for students about fellowships and preparing for industry careers.
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Why Stigma Exists | Let’s Talk Stigma

Podcast Episode 1 - Why Stigma Exists: In this episode of Let’s Talk Stigma, we will hear the voices of three different individuals who will share their perspectives on why they believe stigma with opioid use disorders exists and how we can begin to reflect on our own biases and recognize ways we need to change.
Let’s Talk Stigma Show Notes
The Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association has partnered with Pharmacy Podcast Network to bring you a series of podcasts designed to help community pharmacists implement change and practice transformation. The Let’s Talk Stigma podcast miniseries is designed to equip community-based pharmacists to provide culturally sensitive care to individuals with opioid use disorders.
This podcast miniseries was developed by the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy in collaboration with Duquesne University School of Pharmacy and paid for through CDC grant funding provided by the Allegheny County Health Department to the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University Schools of Pharmacy.
Speakers: 
Stacie A. Brown CRS, CFRS
Overdose Prevention Outreach Coordinator
Allegheny County Health Department
Lauren Jonkman, PharmD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Pharmacy and Therapeutics
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
Kelley Kelley
Turtle Creek Borough Mayor
LEAD Community Engagement Coordinator
CONNECT (Congress of Neighboring Communities)
Kevin Kelley
Square Café General Manager
Logan Kissell, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist, The Hometown Pharmacy
Micah J. Sobota, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP, FASCP
Director, Crisis Stabilization Unit 
Coleman Health Services AAH
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United We Stand | The PUTTcast

Join PUTTcast hosts Monique Whitney & Lauren Young for a very special episode with #PizzaIsNotWorking founder Dr. Bled Tanoe, as they discuss problems and dangerous metrics in chain pharmacy, how advocating for pharmacy staff is critical to patient safety, and why real change can only happen when the profession of pharmacy unites regardless of workplace.
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Where’s the Patient’s Voice in Evidence-based Treatment & Research? | Pharmacist and Physician Opioid Collaborative

Each day, more than 130 people die from opioid overdoses.
Opioids are a class of drugs that include prescription pain relievers like oxycodone. They also include illegal drugs like heroin. In 2019, 1.6 million Americans had an opioid addiction. This is also known as opioid use disorder. Yet effective medications—like buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone—are prescribed to only a fraction of people with opioid use disorder. Patients often receive such medications in an opioid treatment program. Methadone, for example, can only be given in a certified treatment program. Primary care physicians can apply for a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine. However, less than 10% of U.S. primary care providers have a buprenorphine waiver. Given the limited number of patients that each physician can treat, involving pharmacists in opioid treatment may improve access.
The Doctor Patient Forum’s Mission Statement is to advocate, educate, and defend the rights of patients, to protect all providers (including prescribers and pharmacists) who tirelessly work to treat their patients, and to bring awareness to the general public regarding restrictions upon medical providers. We are fighting for a return to individualized patient care instead of using guidelines and laws based on little evidence using arbitrary thresholds. Contrary to what has been said, we are not “industry funded.” We haven’t taken any money from pharma. We are not being paid to promote opioids. We are simply chronic pain and illness patients who are fighting as hard as we can to effect change in this broken system where the patient’s voice is non-existent.
For part 4 of the series, we're honored to have Ms. Bev Schechtman. Ms. Schectman is one of the founding members of Don’t Punish Pain Rally and is the VP of The Doctor Patient Forum. She grew up in northern New Jersey, and has lived in the Raleigh area in North Carolina since 2009. Bev has been married to Randy for 18 years, and has two teenage daughters, Emma, 17, and Livvy,13. She also has a 3-year-old Aussidoodle, Griffin.
Bev has been living with Crohn’s Disease and Psoriatic Arthritis for over two decades. She first contacted Claudia Merandi after being denied opioid medication while hospitalized for kidney stones in 2017.She was denied due to being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Bev is a passionate advocate for people with chronic pain and illness as well as those who have PTSD/ survived sexual assault/abuse. Bev has her B.A. in Psychology and hopes to get her M.S.W. in the near future. Bev is a voracious reader and researcher. She is passionate about understanding why pain patients are being mistreated so she can educate other patients and empower them to fight back. Bev hopes her advocacy work brings awareness to the anti-opioid zealots who are profiting off of punishing pain patients while pretending to care about those with addiction. She also believes strongly in Harm Reduction efforts.
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Welcome to the 21st Century for Specialty Pharmacy | UN-Scripted by Surescripts

Hear from Accredo’s Katie Reeves and Dr. Andrew Mellin from Surescripts about how electronic solutions are axing the fax and bringing better quality of care to patients.
Learn how Surescripts solutions are helping to revolutionize the specialty medications experience.
Surescripts blog posts on pharmacy and specialty medications
The Rise of Pharmacy to the Front Lines of Care and Innovation
Avoiding Specialty Pharmacy Detours featuring findings from a Surescripts study in partnership with Accredo
An Exercise In Trust: One Multiple Sclerosis Patient’s Journey
Relevant UN-Scripted Podcast Episodes
The Future is Now for Specialty Medications
A Day in the Life of a Specialty Pharmacist
Managing Chronic Conditions with the Help of Your Pharmacist
Press Releases
Surescripts Further Streamlines Specialty Prescribing Process With New Services For Specialty Pharmacies
Specialty Pharmacists Report Process Delays of Up To 10 Days To Get Patients Started On Treatment
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Sean O’Brien and creating a new Social Media Network | Darshan Talks

In this episode of the DarshanTalks Podcast, the host Darshan Kulkarni Pharm.D, MS, Esq. welcomes back guest Sean O'Brien to talk about Data & Privacy. Sean O’Brien is a lecturer at Yale Law School and Chief Security Officer at Panquake. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, where he founded and leads the Privacy Lab initiative. At the start of the podcast, he explained his journey in Yale and the Privacy lab. In Privacy Lab they deal with hands-on tech implementation where they show people how to be more secure, private and potentially anonymous about their privacy and data. There are digital self-defense workshops that were called crypto parties. These involved hands-on practices which is different from teaching basics and principles of a particular subject. The expert talked about teaching the students which included professionals, paralegals, law graduates, and undergrad students who are seeking to learn about cyber tech. With that, they performed cyber security activities and students came up with their own concepts of hacking. For example, They performed the activity of hacking other students' microphones in the same room, which was fun and engaging to learn.
Discussion on social networking and privacy implications that the big giants like Facebook and Twitter are causing people to feel not so secure. Sean talked about the Panquake, a decentralized platform that works on blockchain, and how it's the game-changer for social networking with short messaging technology wherein people's privacy is protected. He described there are three components of determining the social networking with privacy i.e., the question of critical mass, the question of hunger and willingness to pay for privacy by users, and history of alternative/replacement of social networks. Panquake blockchain model will be based on Byzantine fault tolerance.
Connect with Sean O' Brien:
Email: sean.obrien@yale.edu
Twitter: @seanodiggity
Website: TalkLiberation.com
Panquake.com
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1. This discussion is merely an oral discussion and should not be relied upon solely on its own to support any conclusion of law or fact.
2. The discussion does not and should not reflect any individual products status as safe, efficacious, adulterated, or misbranded or meeting or not meeting expectations at a local, state, federal, or international agency or organization.
3. The discussion should not be construed to be complete advice that is right for you and may not necessarily represent a specific product.
4. This discussion is provided for general educational purposes and should not be construed as legal advice, regulatory advice, or medical advice.
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Pandemic Stresses and Patient Safety | Locked On Pharmacy

We have heard loud concerns of overwhelmed pharmacists in busy pharmacies. We have also heard of potential pharmacist protests to their employers in the form of a sickout.
Pharmacy workforce issues that lead to frustration and burnout are very real. They have been building for some time, but they have become more acute with the stressors brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Workplace conditions have pushed many pharmacists and pharmacy teams to the brink of despair. Pharmacy burnout is a significant patient safety issue. It is impacting patients today with delayed prescription fulfillment, unacceptable waits for vaccines and testing, and potential errors due to high volume, long hours and pressure to meet performance metrics.
Well-being
APhA and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations developed the Pharmacy Workplace and Well-being Reporting (PWWR), a safe, confidential, and anonymous space for pharmacy personnel to report positive and negative workplace experiences. PWWR reports create a pool of aggregated data that will be used to influence and educate our pharmacy community and leaders—including those who can do something about it – on meaningful and actionable changes. The experiences and situations submitted via PWWR help tell a collective, powerful story that can spark change and improvement in well-being, delivery of care, and patient safety in pharmacies.
APhA unwaveringly supports our pharmacists and the work of pharmacy teams as they seek overdue action from employers to improve eroding workplace conditions. However, we strongly believe that actions such as a sickout where pharmacists would walk away from direct patient care is not an appropriate action. A profession that is rightly demanding action to keep themselves and their patients safe should not compromise public welfare by abandoning patients who rely on them. Serving patients and ensuring patient safety is core to the profession of pharmacy.
Pharmacists are caregivers, and we must address the fundamental issues causing burnout and frustration. The public, decision-makers, and regulators must be educated about, and recognize, the seriousness of our pharmacy teams’ negative well-being and the need for both additional resources and realistic expectations to safely provide patient care services. The value within our practices are the individuals who serve the health care needs of their patients and communities. Pharmacists are committed to serving these needs and have demonstrated this commitment throughout the pandemic. However, they cannot sustain this commitment without immediate changes.
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Learn, Adapt, and Grow; A one on one with Colin Cowherd | RMS CLIMB

On this very special episode of the RMS CLIMB Podcast, we’re talking with Sports Host and Bestselling Author Colin Cowherd. Colin talks about lessons learned on the road to success and shares why being agile is perhaps the most important trait for entrepreneurs today. Plus, we’ll learn key takeaways on being a motivational leader and keeping professional teams engaged and performing their best. Tune in
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Insights and Innovation with Intelligent Pharmacy Data | The Future of Pharmacy by Omnicell

Insights and Innovation with Intelligent Pharmacy Data
You can’t manage what you can’t see. When pharmacy leaders at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital made their medication inventories visible through intelligent data solutions, they were able to make better decisions for their patients, their processes, and their balance sheet.  
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The RxFactor PDS Super Conference 2022

This podcast is an interview with Chief Pharmacy Officer, Elaine M Ladd, PharmD, and Chip Phillips Chief Executive Officer at Pharmacy Development Services about the RxFactor PDS Super Conference 2022. 
Throughout the Conference's three days in Orlando, you’ll hear from industry leaders about where opportunity, disruption, technology, and mindset are accelerating change in your favor. Re-image your community pharmacy and the impact on patients’ lives. Hear solutions to Independent Community Pharmacy's most challenging problems. Share your perspective and ideas with the community. It is possible to grow your business while staying true to your values as a healthcare provider. Join us for three immersive days of learning and connection at the PDS Super-Conference. Unleash the potential of your pharmacy business.
GET TICKETS: https://web.cvent.com/event/2763f097-2a2a-4a59-af84-aa810bfaf0fd/summary
Learn More: https://www.pdsconference.com/
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COVID-19 Omicron and New Antiviral Treatments | Lets Pharmonize

Welcome back to Let's Pharmonize! Here to bring you the same great content you've grown to love are Shane Garrettson and Cal Vandergrift. Today we're kicking off Season Three of Let's Pharmonize with a discussion of the new variant of concern, Omicron, as well as some new antiviral treatments for COVID-19 hitting the market. 
This is NOT your physician's podcast. Hosts Shane Garrettson and Cal Vandergrift dive into the pharmacy world with fun, interesting, and downright weird topics!
Tune in for NEW episodes, available on Spotify, Apple, Anchor, and more! Check out our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages at Let's Pharmonize to view videos and images relevant to every episode! If you have any questions, comments, or even corrections, e-mail us at pharmonization@gmail.com.
PLEASE READ: Shane and Cal are NOT medical professionals. DO NOT USE the information presented in this podcast to aid in your own personal health or medicinal benefit. This is a light-hearted podcast that should not be taken with the same seriousness as your own personal health.
A special thanks to Kelly Kerr for creating the music used in the intro and outro.
Additional Music from Pixabay and Fesliyan Studios
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The Thin Ledge: A Husband’s Memoir of Love, Trauma, and Unexpected Circumstances by Dan Shapiro

Daniel Shapiro, author of The Thin Ledge: A Husband’s Memoir of Love, Trauma, and Unexpected Circumstances. Daniel was a successful attorney in his early forties when his wife Susan suffered not one, but two massive brain hemorrhages. The bleeds left Susan spiraling into a depression, with a major personality change and barely able to speak, see, or walk. 
In this profoundly honest memoir, Daniel Shapiro shares the reality of the fifteen years he spent living and caring for his wife while also single handedly raising their three young children. Often Shapiro found himself looking for guidance as he struggled to figure out what is right, what is okay, what is wrong, what is just human, and how to bear it all. For anyone who has ever had to deal with the anguish and desperation of an illness, this book addresses questions that people living through unspeakable misfortunes may never mention, but almost always ask.
Daniel is available to talk about the book as well as:
Dan’s experience with the US healthcare system.
The struggle of a caregiver {1 in 5 Americans are caregivers}. 
The perspective of a male caregiver {most caregivers are women}. 
“The Long Goodbye” and moving on/growing from trauma.
The importance of mental health, especially when experiencing/having experience trauma.
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Mental Health & the Importance of Medication Adherence | RxSafe Podcast Series

Synopsis: Major psychiatric disorders are a growing public health concern that attributed to 14% of the global burden of diseases. The management of major psychiatric disorders is challenging mainly due to medication non-adherence.
There seems to be a scarcity of summarized evidence on the prevalence of psychotropic medication non-adherence and associated factors. Psychiatric disorders have been a global public health challenge. Almost 450 million people are affected by psychiatric disorders worldwide. 
Psychiatric disorders cost approximately $2.5 trillion dollars in 2010 and are expected to rise up to $6.0 trillion by 2030. Mental health disorders are surprisingly common in the United States. Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental health illness, that’s 51.5 million people in 2019. Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe. Lost resources and production, unemployment, absences from work, and premature death are some of the indirect economic costs.
Therefore, we’re excited to discuss this important topic today with three Pharmacist’s focused on Mental Health in their communities and practices.
Tyler Young RPh, is the lead pharmacist with Hines Prescription Shop, a locally-owned pharmacy in Barnesville, Georgia. Tyler helps hundreds of patients become more compliant with their medications by making it simpler with RxSafe Adherence packaging.
Dr. Thomas McDowell, PharmD, is the owner of McDowell’s Pharmacy in North Carolina. Thomas and I have been on several panel discussions in the past, both LIVE in person, and on Zoom. We value Thomas’s insights & look forward to his experiences helping patients with mental health conditions.
Dr. Monica Krishnan, PharmD, is a clinical pharmacist with a practice of over 18 years. She began her career as a inpatient critical care pharmacist at UCLA medical center in 2002. After starting a family and suffering the loss of her husband at a young age, Dr Monica switched paths and joined the field of community pharmacy.
Monica is a personal friend of mine, a member of the Pharmacy Podcast Network leading our ‘Pharmacists Focused on Mental Health’ podcast and currently works with the Walmart Health & Wellness team in Los Angeles.
Dr. Monica plans to continue to spread awareness and education on mental health and hopes to continue working and collaborating with other mental health advocates. She has an incredibly active Instagram which is focused on mental health advocacy.
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P2 Student Pharmacist Initiates, Develops, and Leads DSMES Classes | Beyond the Sig

This episode of "Beyond the Sig" is with special guest P2 Wilkes University School of Pharmacy student, Julia Firestine as we focus on the student's role in DSMES classes. Julia was able to initiate and develop the DSMES accreditation as well as lead the discussions on her own. DSMES has helped her develop her clinical knowledge and grow with patients during the duration of the program. Leverage student pharmacists and their passion for patient care to develop your DSMES accreditation and allow them to take the lead! 
Referenced Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877129720303397?casa_token=aMfiYa3u-4IAAAAA:9hp61_fP1cXhalJBjHiZrev9p770vKR06Ysa_ey0UHJjj1e5sAPmyZJRkenbGOlQ2v5L4HUl
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The Great Resignation | Integra X Files

The Great Resignation and LTC’s Conundrum 
 
Join Frances Nahas and Jim McDonald as they have a candid chat with longtime, long-term care 
customer Rusty Lee on the unique challenges long-term care faces amidst this new phenomenon 
triggered by the pandemic. 
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Commercial Benefits of Patient Engagement | DarshanTalks

In this episode of @darshantalks, we discuss Patient Centricity with guest Emma Sutcliffe. Emma Sutcliffe, Senior Vice President, Patient Insights and Solutions at Prime Global (https://primeglobalpeople.com/), talks about her experience hosting a webinar with two prominent industry leaders in the field of patient engagement.
Novartis is the gold standard in patient engagement and was used as a case study in that session. Patient engagement is not yet mainstream, so experts are trying to push it towards the companies. Business benefits highly from patient engagement because of the "triple wing" concept: get medical services, products for patients in time and patient-focused drug development.
Companies are 19% more likely to launch a drug with successful pharma if they've included patients within their clinical design program. It results in better medicines through the pipelines and patient activation. When patients become active, their patient activation measure (PAM) in patient-centred care is likely to rise on all four levels.
They will be 28% more likely to consume fewer healthcare services, which means that the burden on ER departments will reduce as people are more health literate; they can manage health crises independently. Her company has started to help those patients who have reduced activation because of stress levels during a traumatic event, pandemic or work anxiety. Pharma companies that are adding to their PAM improve society's health activation as a whole. She compares UK and US healthcare and speaks about their merits.
For the former, through the NHS, patients can try and circumvent diagnostic pathways to get treatments faster via patient activation. For the latter, it is that professional relationships between pharma companies and patient engagement groups are robust. Patients sometimes skirt around the rules and regulations to get access to medicines, but with patient engagement, they don't have to do that. She concludes with her observations on the present regional compliance challenges at play regarding pioneering global patient activation. 
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Pharmacists as Pharmacogenomic Counselors | PGX for Pharmacists

On this episode, Dr. Gillian Bell, a Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy, shares her path from pharmacy school to her non-traditional PharmD job as Pharmacogenomics Lead, Genome Medical. 
On This Episode We Discuss: 
• Gillian’s education (Brief) 
• Dr. Bell's work experience prior to PGx (Brief) Residency 
• Gillian’s PGx work experience prior to Genome Medical (Brief) Mission Hospital 
• Brief description of Genome Medical, its mission, its services, its clients 
• Gillian’s roles and responsibilities as the Pharmacogenomics Lead at Genome Medical 
• What does a typical day at Genome Medical look like for its pharmacists? How do the pharmacists interact with the genetic counselors? 
• “Genetic Counseling” or “PGx Inclusive Medication Therapy Management’ do the pharmacists provide one or the other or both? Neither? To whom are the services provided? Providers and/or to patients? 
• Gillian’s advice to pharmacists who want to pursue a career in PGx 
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The Public Deserves the Truth about Pharmacy Benefit Managers with Madelaine A. Feldman, MD, FACR

Madelaine A. Feldman, MD, FACR
Dr. Madelaine Feldman is a rheumatologist in private practice with The Rheumatology Group in New Orleans, LA. She is President of the Coalition of State Rheumatology Organizations, Chair of the Alliance for Safe Biologic Medicines and past member of the American College of Rheumatology insurance subcommittee.
Dr. Feldman is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine, and lectures extensively to patients, physicians, regulators, and legislators both locally and nationally, speaking before the Health subcommittee of Energy and Commerce in 2019.  She has spoken and written on the drug supply channel, particularly the effect that formulary construction and utilization management tools have on pricing and access to drugs (availability & affordability).
Dr. Feldman is honored to be the recipient of the American College of Rheumatology's 2021 Innovation in Clinical Care award. She received the Distinguished Service Award for Tulane Medical School, was named one of the Top Women in New Orleans by City Business in 2017 and is the former radio talk show host of “Driving with Dr. Mattie.”
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