Pharmacist Role

A Pharmacist spends most of his or her day counting and dispensing medications in a little room at the local drug store. While this may have been true at various times and to various extents over the last hundred years, the duties of today's pharmacist are decidedly more complex. The Role has altered more towards knowledge of the product, and interaction with the patient — so more focus on treatment rather than just the dispensing and the preparation of the product. "The role manifests itself is with more patient contact and more patient counseling, greater involvement in disease state management, greater involvement in assisting patients with managing their disease states and serving a greater information source role for the patient." Advances in pharmaceuticals have also played a part. "Pharmacists are much more involved in modifying patient behavior and physician prescribing behaviors and practices today than they were 20 years ago," The major reason is that today, drug therapy is far more complex and comprehensive and challenging to use. Drug Therapy has become a primary form of treatment, Where in the past, hospitalization and surgery were more the primary forms of treatment which reckons the role of the pharmacist in the present Health care system.