pharmaceutics

62. PharmD and OP dispensary

I was the one who was very happy when I learnt that students are taught in hospital environment in PharmD course. This has been one of my major observation and demand that culturing the students away from the hospital and community environment cannot yield healthy pharmacists supportive to community or hospital service.

61. Pharmacist of yester decades

Indian Health Service: Paving the Way for Pharmaceutical Care Quote: "For more than three decades, pharmacists with the federal Indian Health Service (IHS) have practiced pharmaceutical care in its broadest form. In fact, some credit the IHS with having invented the very concept long before the term "pharmaceutical care" was coined." ..Read more.. on:

55. Pharmacist - Boquets & Brickbats

What is myth and what is reality? Whome to believe? In India it is true that Pharmacist is the least cared health professional. but we boast of having hundreds of pharmacy colleges and hundreds of foreign students studying pharmacy in these colleges It is also true that we havn't produced even one community or hospital pharmacist worth its name.

51. Pharmacist - a neglected work force

Dear pharmacist, I was just browsing blindly when I came across a blog dated 2007. The reading took me back to 2 decades old feel that resulted in my write up 'MYTHS & REALITIES' in pharmacy that was published in pharmatimes, republished in IFP journal from switzerland and the article now available in BRITISH LIBRARY DIRECT - LONDON.

43 NATIONAL PHARMACY WEEK

I have received quite a good response for my previous blog No. 42. I have many invitations and intimations from various pharmacy bodies including pharmacy colleges. Many have called me over phone expressing their good feel at my suggestion on Domestic drug management and have asked me to suggest some more activity.

40 Toxicity treatment - a challenge to the hospital

We encounter two distinct toxicity cases in the hospital: Toxicity due to drugs & Toxicity due to poisons Many a time these two though are generally looked upon as alike superficially the practitioners and academicians need to treat them differently. The picture perhaps would be clear if I put it as: 'Toxic effect of a poison' & 'Toxic effect of a drug'