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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.
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).