what do pharmacist do anyway? Every time I go to the pharmacy, I see a lineup of people behind the counter doing something I’m sure they’re counting up pills, but did they do anything else?
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Like you’re five? (Reminder for myself because we have some wordy comments here)
Pharmacists keep patients from getting hurt by the doctor’s mistakes. They fill in the holes in a doctor’s knowledge about medicine. In the BEST situation, they’re the last set of eyes on a good script before it goes to the patient, where they make sure the right medicine is in the bottle. And then they talk to the patient about side effects, what they need to do while taking the medicine, how they know it’s working, and when to go back to the doctor about it, or when to stop taking that medicine if something really bad happens.
And they help patients decide which medicines from the store are safe to take with all their other medicines, or which ones will help them the most with their sickness. Or tell them they need to go to the doctor, and over the counter meds like Tylenol won’t actually fix the problem.
Does that make sense?
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