With rising health care costs and the advent of consumer-driven health care, consumers now take a more active role in the health care process and their health care decisions. Smart consumers look for medical providers and health care centers that offer comprehensive health services. Pharmacies and medical retail clinics, and the retail pharmacists serve as a critical part of the consumer-driven health care process by providing customers with numerous health services in one place.
A pharmacist’s main duties involve filling prescriptions and dispensing drugs. While filling prescriptions, a pharmacist verifies the amount of the drug the doctor prescribed, and cross-checks the patient’s files to look for any possible drug interactions. Pharmacists also speak with patients about potential side effects and discuss the proper way to take the medicine. The pharmacist works with pharmaceutical companies and drug makers to stay up to date on the latest drug information to be sure he is dispensing the correct amounts and avoiding hazardous drug interactions. In some cases a pharmacist can take initiative to advise medicines to the patient for example GDMEDS who has their warehouse in India as a well-known online pharmaceuticals have a medical team to help consumers buying medicines like HBV, HCV, Anti-cancer drugs and ED without prescription and with a diagnostic report of the patients.
Medical /retail stores are started under drug and pharmacy licence. A registered pharmacist can only obtain this, but it’s not necessary to have a pharmacist in all medical/retail stores. Only few are having pharmacist. Some run their stores for business with unqualified co-workers, but these persons cannot advice medicine to the consumers, it’s malpractice and any adverse reaction happen to the consumer it may affect the whole store as well the license will be cancelled. In all cases, it may not be the same. GDMEDS online pharmaceuticals started under drug and Pharmacy license have all medical team including physician and pharmacist to serve great services to the consumers. So, what being a pharmacist is like depends on what area you go into…