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I half-wondered if these were just a handful of malcontents – until I saw a poll that the trade union,
我有點懷疑這些人是否只是一小撮不滿的人，直到我看到一份民意調查，
the Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) recently conducted of its members.
藥劑師防衛協會最近對其成員進行了調查。
The survey of working conditions, shared exclusively with the Guardian,
《衛報》獨家分享了對工作條件的調查，
is the first of its scale and kind the PDA has commissioned – and it says something deeply worrying about the profession Britons rely upon for their medicines.
這是PDA第一次委托開展的此種規模和種類的調查——它表明了英國人依賴的藥品行業存在著深深的擔憂。
Open to all chemists in the PDA, whatever chain they worked for, the survey attracted 1,988 responses,
這項調查對PDA中的所有化學家開放，無論他們在哪條鏈工作，共吸引了1988人回復，
of which 624 were from Boots employees – more than one in 10 of all its chemists.
其中624人是博姿的員工——占其藥劑師總數的十分之一以上。
The survey suggests that morale across the profession is low,s but that Boots pharmacists feel more pressured than those employed by Lloyds, Asda and the rest.
調查顯示，整個行業的士氣都很低落，但是博姿藥劑師比勞埃德銀行、阿斯達銀行和其他銀行的藥劑師感到更有壓力。
Like Tony, many routinely dispense medicines without anyone else checking their work.
和托尼一樣，許多人在沒有任何人檢查他們工作的情況下例行地分發藥物。
But their responses to two questions stand out.
但他們對兩個問題的回答引人注目。
Asked how often “commercial incentives or targets have compromised the health, safety or wellbeing of patients and the public,
當被問及商業激勵或目標損害病人和公眾的健康、安全、福祉或者是工作人員的專業判斷”的頻率時，
or the professional judgment of staff”, more than 60% of Boots pharmacists said that was the case half the time or more.
超過60%的博姿藥劑師表示，半數以上的情況是這樣的。
That compares to 52% of chemists at other chains.
相比之下，其他連鎖店的藥劑師只有52%。
Asked “how often do you believe financial cutbacks imposed by your main employer have directly impacted upon patient safety”,
當被問及“你認為你的主要雇主實施的財政削減有多少次直接影響到病人的安全”時，
56% of Boots chemists said that was true “around half” or “most” of the time.
56%的博姿藥劑師表示，這種說法在“大約一半”或“大多數”情況下是正確的。
A further 20% said it was the case “all the time”.
另有20%的人說“一直”都是這樣。
Taken together, these numbers outstrip by 10 percentage points their counterparts at other chains,
加在一起，這些數字比其他連鎖店的同行高出10個百分點，
and should cause particular alarm given Boots’s position as Britain’s biggest pharmacy.
考慮到博姿是英國最大的藥劑公司，這一點應該引起特別的警惕。
