What do pharmacists do?
I know pharmacists dispense medication and find any prescription errors I’m just confused as to why they have to go through 8 years of school to do that. I was recently able to shadow a pharmacist and it seems as if the computer will alert the pharmacist if a medication prescription has an error in it. It also seems like the pharmacy techs are also able to count pills and because the computer flags any prescription errors the pharmacy tech could probably also fix any errors.
However I’m sure pharmacists do more than what I saw in my couple of hours of shadowing I’m just not sure what else they do. It would be kind of messed up if they went through 8 years of school just to count pills and have a computer do the rest so I imagine a pharmacist has responsibilities that goes beyond that.
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I think the same with doctors… in the U.K they have to follow NICE guidelines which are basically a set of instructions by the British government. So if you rock up with ‘depression’. The doctor will nod away and then go.. ‘I’ll put you on Sertaline’… that’s because the uk government has decided this is the cheapest option – option 1. This is basically ‘step one’ in a flow chart… 3 months later you go back and say ‘I’m still depressed’.., the doctor then consults the computer and says ‘ok, we’ll try another SSRI’… Doctors basically HAVE to follow this protocol… or risk being struck off the register… so you might as well deal with a computer .
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