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Pharmacy

It is a multidisciplinary field of science that specializes in medicinal treatment and study


drugs, medicines and their development, their use and effect mainly from the point of
view of natural sciences, heath sciences, as well as social sciences. It is the heath field
that link health sciences with chemical sciences, and it is charged with ensuring the safe
use of medication, but also more modern services related to patient care, such as
reviewing medications for safety and efficacy, and providing drug information.

Pharmacists
Pharmacists have many areas of expertise and are a critical sources of medical knowledge
in clinics, hospitals, and community pharmacies throughout the world.
Pharmacists are a exceptionally trained in medicine-related field including pharmacology,
pharmacognosy, chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacy practice ( including
drug interactions, medicine monitoring, medication management), pharmaceutics,
pharmacy law, physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, kinetics, nephrology, hepatology, and
compounding medications.
In their traditional role pharmacists are health professtional trained in the part of
preparing and dispensing drugs; they take medical prescription, dispense medications to
patient and counsel them on the proper use and adverse effects of that medication.
One of the most important role that pharmacist are currently taking on is one of
pharmaceutical care, in this role, pharmacists ensure the safe and effective use of
medications. They may participate in disease state management in order to optimise and
monitor drug therapy often in collaboration with physician or other health professionals.
Thay may direct responsibility for patient and their disease states, medication, and the
management of each in order to improve outcome for each individual patient.
Pharmacists are often the first of point of contact for patient with health inquiries. This
means that they have large roles in the assessing medication management in the primary
care of patient.

Pharmacists, dispensing chemist, druggist


Pharmacists are somttimes reffered to as chemists or dispensing chemist, in British
English and Australian English or druggist in North American Dnglish. In this case they
are allow to fulfil precriptions and uaually operate in a pharmacy or chemist’s shop,
usually abbreviated to “the chemist’s” in the United Kingdom, Australia and New
Zealand. The United States and Canada use the term drugstore and pharmacy.
It is possible for a shop to be a general chemist without the ability to fulfil precriptions. In
such cases, only ‘Over the Counter’ (OTC) drug and medications may be supplied, as
these do not require the services of a licensed pharmacist. Such shops will also usually
supply a wide range of health related goods.

DRUG: A drug is the chemical basic for the production of a medicine, a medicine is the
finished production after a drug is manufactured for use as a cure, treatment or prevention
of disease.
PHARMACOGNOSY: This name is formed two Greek words, pharmakon, drug, and
gnosis, knowledge, and literally means the “entire knowledge of drug” (distribution,
cultivation, collection, selection, preparation, commerce, indentification, evalution,
preservation, and use).

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