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    Pharmacists play a crucial role in the Indian healthcare system by counseling patients on proper medication use, checking for drug interactions and allergies, and ensuring patients receive the correct drugs and dosages. They provide an important safety check between doctors and patients. Pharmacists also educate patients and other healthcare professionals. Courts have recognized the importance of pharmacists in preventing medication errors and improper drug use.

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    Pharmacists play a crucial role in the Indian healthcare system by counseling patients on proper medication use, checking for drug interactions and allergies, and ensuring patients receive the correct drugs and dosages. They provide an important safety check between doctors and patients. Pharmacists also educate patients and other healthcare professionals. Courts have recognized the importance of pharmacists in preventing medication errors and improper drug use.

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    Pharmacists play a crucial role in the Indian healthcare system by counseling patients on proper medication use, checking for drug interactions and allergies, and ensuring patients receive the correct drugs and dosages. They provide an important safety check between doctors and patients. Pharmacists also educate patients and other healthcare professionals. Courts have recognized the importance of pharmacists in preventing medication errors and improper drug use.

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    The key takeaways are that pharmacists play an important role in patient safety by ensuring correct dosages and preventing adverse drug interactions. They counsel patients and check prescriptions to maximize drug effects and minimize side effects.

    Some of the main responsibilities of a pharmacist are to check prescriptions, dispense the correct medications, provide guidance on side effects and drug interactions, and offer consultation services for managing complex diseases.

    Pharmacists help prevent dangerous drug interactions by checking that patients are not prescribed medications they may be allergic to or that will interact with other foods or medications they are taking, as patients often receive prescriptions from multiple doctors.

    Pharmacist role in dispensing medicine

    Today, most of the drugs come from pharmaceutical companies in


    standardized doses and prepacked forms and therefore, we very often
    argue and debate the necessity of pharmacists in retailing of drugs,
    ignoring the fact that the pharmacist assumes more importance in the
    context of Indian Healthcare System. Amidst the lingering illiteracy,
    the pharmacist has a crucial role to play, but the pharmacists were
    “remarkably underutilized and ignored” given their education,
    training, and the requirement to the community.

    Pharmacist is the bridge between doctors and patients who counsels


    and advice the patient to maximize the desired effect of the drugs and
    minimize the untoward/adverse effects of the drug.

    The basic duty of a pharmacist is to check prescriptions from


    physicians before dispensing the medication to the patients to ensure
    that the patients don't receive the wrong drugs or take an incorrect
    dose of medicine. Dispensing the wrong drugs or giving incorrect
    usage instructions can have serious consequences for patients,
    including death. Pharmacists also offer guidance on the side effects;
    medication can have and warn against actions that could be
    dangerous while the patient is using the medicine, such as consuming
    alcohol or operating heavy machinery.
    Much of their work is related to patient safety, so a pharmacist makes
    sure the patient isn't prescribed a medication that he might be allergic
    to, or that will interact with food or another medication he is already
    taking. Patients very often are prescribed different medicines from
    different doctors, and patients receiving treatments from multiple
    specialists for different complaints might be issued drugs that could
    make them unwell if combined with other medicines. Although
    preventing dangerous drug interactions is primarily a physician's
    responsibility, pharmacists provide a check against this possibility.

    A pharmacist may offer consultation services for the management of


    complex diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, arthritis, etc., or
    give general advice on diet, exercise, and managing stress.
    Pharmacists may also educate other health care professionals such as
    physicians or nurses about pharmacology-related issues or medication
    management and contribute most in the campaign to stop the
    inappropriate use of antibiotics, habit forming and aphrodisiac drugs.

    The Hon'ble Courts have also underlined the importance of


    pharmacists by upholding in a number of cases that “a little mistake in
    compounding, dispensing, preparing or mixing drugs may prove to be
    very fatal and cause irreparable loss to a person who is already in
    difficulty. The age old long practice of selling and consuming
    medicines without much fear cannot be now followed. Services of
    pharmacists are not only necessary to ensure supply of medicines in
    proper and just manner, but it will also work as a check against
    unauthorized sale of medicines for the purpose other than treatment.
    It is well-known to everybody that a large number of medicines are
    now being used for purposes of intoxication. If a pharmacist is present
    in the shop at the time of sale, it may provide check against such
    improper use of medicines. The supply of medicine against the
    prescription requires a certain skill for the correct interpretation of
    prescription, checking doses prescribed and detailing the same
    properly to the patient.”

    In a nutshell, we can say pharmacist is the gatekeeper for appropriate


    medication management. Therefore, we all should work together to
    establish and give the pharmacists rightful position in the society.

    Thanks to the good work of so many pharmacists, the Hon'ble Courts,


    public and we, the regulators are recognizing your value. Keep up the
    great work

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