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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Depends your job. I have a friend that answers phone calls from doctors and patients all day, he has to talk about the drugs, give warnings and issues. I think also a big part is to try and identify any potential combinations of drugs that could be harmful that a doctor may have missed (as they prescribe based on symptoms). Pharmacists tend to need to know how the drugs interact with each other for safety by identifying risk factors.
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