I am now a retired Pharmacist but I agree with your remarks.  When I worked
at a 750 bed hospital in Detroit I had a lot of good questions from medical
interns, students, and nurses.  The best questions were when the new house
staff started in July and in the middle of the night from the nursing staff.
Don't most practicing doctors get their medical info directly from the drug
salesmen and not retail Pharmacists? So-called free samples, gifts, and BS
seem to sell a lot of pharmaceuticals.  Look at the off label use of drugs
that have been suggested by drug salesmen.

"I did "work" in Hospitals and Retail ..along with a few years in the
Military ....the ONLY place I really used my education on a daily
bases was in the Military...most likely because the Physicians were "Green"
and the supply of drugs limited"

I am now retired and honestly The only thing I was interested in when
I was in your situatuion was BUILDING MY BANK ACCOUNT ..period...

I did "work" in Hospitals and Retail ..along with a few years in
the Military ....the ONLY place I really used my education on a daily
bases was in the Military...most likely because the Physicians
were "Green" and the supply of drugs limited

See Above....

Hell No

?

I have a feeling you are smoking somthing

Bob Griffiths

I am applying to pharmacy school, and have been thinking in more
detail about what I want to do when I become a practicing pharmacist.

Currently, I volunteer in a hospital pharmacy, and get a little
exposure to what the pharmacists there do in their day to day jobs.
They get called on frequently to provide drug knowledge, and it seems
like, advice to the other staff (nurses/doctors).

It seems like pharmacy school curricula is highly intense. I would
think that pharmacists have SO much knowledge about drugs,
pharmacokinetics, and just an incredible amount of
chemical/physical/thermodynamic knowledge about how pharmaceuticals
work in the body. Yet it seems like they will never really get to
implement this knowledge day-to-day.

I would like to hear from others, both in retail, hospital, industry -
what do you think?

Do you use your education?

Are you consulted on by other healthcare peers as an expert?

Do you feel like you are called on, and needed, to provide your expert
advice?

To me, a pharmacist is a sort of a specialized doctor. Someone who can
be there to provide very specific and accurate information, and apply
that to a situation where lives are at stake, helping to save those
lives, and make them better. Do you feel this is the case in reality?