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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Pharmacists are doctors, they have to obtain doctoral degrees and then pass additional certifications to become a pharmacist which takes quite a lot of study. They’re required to undergo advanced training because they need to understand the different drugs out there and how they work on a chemical level. They have to learn what treatments are effective for which conditions just like a GP or specialist doctor does, but instead of treating minor conditions like GPs or specific body systems like specialists do, they need to have specialist-level understanding of the function of each drug at their disposal in relation to the human body.
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