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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Origin of Pharmacy, Pharmacist.
                    Greeks were one of the first this profession. The word pharmacy originated from the Greek word “PHARMAKON”. In the 19th century it separated from medicine and developed as a separate profession. In 1821, first school of pharmacy was established in U.S at Philadelphia.
                     The 1852 Pharmacy Act, June 30 established a Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists in Great Britain , restricted to those who had taken the Society’s exams. However, the Act did not restrict the practice of pharmacy to examined and registered people, nor provide a legal definition for the trade and practice of pharmacy. This was first done by the Pharmacy Act 1868.

                  
                      In some jurisdictions, pharmacists have prescriptive authority to either independently prescribe under their own authority or in collaboration with a primary care physician through an agreed upon protocol.

                       So now, Pharmacists are health professionals who practice the science of pharmacy. In their traditional role, pharmacists typically take a request for medicines from a prescribing health care provider in the form of a medical prescription and dispense the medication to the patient and counsel them on the proper use and adverse effects of that medication. In this role, pharmacists ensure the safe and effective use of medications. Bottom line is, Pharmacists are often the first point-of-contact for patients with health inquiries

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