Re: Being a pharmacist

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Re: Being a pharmacist

Gregory Poon

22 May 2004 04:47

> > > Oh! Get Real!!
> > > Everyone knows a pharmacist just stands behind a tall counter and pours
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> Are you kidding me? The most frightening thing about this attitude is
> what damage it can and will do the the profession as a whole.

I think the folks were just being facetious ... but in the jokes there is
actually a point: these days pharmacy is all about perception, and
regulators/academics are very eager to project a perception of the
profession that is very much at odds of what much of the general population
holds of pharmacists. And being caught in this contradication can make you
more than a little cynical about the profession. I can't think of another
profession that has to struggle as hard to define itself as pharmacy.
People may not be able to articulate the details, but we don't generally
have problems defining what a lawyer, physician, nurse, accountant, etc.
etc. etc. does, but ask a random person what a pharmacist do ...

Ryan Joseph	22 May 2004 02:33
> > Oh! Get Real!! > > Everyone knows a pharmacist just stands behind a tall counter and pours [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > C. Are you kidding me? The most frightening thing about this attitude is what damage it can and will do the the profession as a whole.

Fifty Hertz	21 May 2004 19:51
> Oh! Get Real!! > Everyone knows a pharmacist just stands behind a tall counter and pours > pills out of a big bottle into little ones... and must absolutely be able to count to: 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180... C.

akar

21 May 2004 19:06

> 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.
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> 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?

Oh! Get Real!!
Everyone knows a pharmacist just stands behind a tall counter and pours
pills out of a big bottle into little ones...

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andrew

Ryan Joseph

20 May 2004 04:35

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?

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