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Pharmacy
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Pharmacy
Occupation
Names
Pharmacist, Chemist, Doctor of Pharmacy, Druggist, Apothecary or simply Doctor
Professional
health care, health sciences, chemical sciences
Description
Competencies
The ethics, art and science of medicine, analytical skills, critical thinking
Doctor of Pharmacy, Master of Pharmacy, Bachelor of Pharmacy
Doctor, pharmacy technician, toxicologist, chemist, pharmacy assistant, other medical specialists
The Apothecary or The Chemist by Gabriël Metsu (c. 1651–67)
Pharmacy is the science and technique of preparing and dispensing drugs. It is a health profession that links health sciences with chemical sciences and aims to ensure the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs.The scope of pharmacy practice includes more traditional roles such as compounding and dispensing medications, and it also includes more modern services related to health care, including clinical services, reviewing medications for safety and efficacy, and providing drug information. Pharmacists, therefore, are the experts on drug therapy and are the primary health professionals who optimize use of medication for the benefit of the patients.An establishment in which pharmacy (in the first sense) is practiced is called a pharmacy (this term is more common in the United States) or a chemist's (which is more common in Great Britain). In the United States and Canada, drugstores commonly sell drugs, as well as miscellaneous items such as confectionary, cosmetics, office supplies, and magazines and occasionally refreshments and groceries.The word pharmacy is derived from its root word pharma which was a term used since the 15th–17th centuries. However, the original Greek roots from pharmakos imply sorcery or even poison. In addition to pharma responsibilities, the pharma offered general medical advice and a range of services that are now performed solely by other specialist practitioners, such as surgery and midwifery. The pharma (as it was referred to) often operated through a retail shop which, in addition to ingredients for medicines, sold tobacco and patent medicines. The pharmas also used many other herbs not listed. The Greek word pharmakeia (Greek: fa?µa?e?a) derives from pharmakon (f??µa???), meaning "drug", "medicine" (or "poison").In its investigation of herbal and chemical ingredients, the work of the pharma may be regarded as a precursor of the modern sciences of chemistry and pharmacology, prior to the formulation of the scientific method.
^ f??µa???. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
^ "PY 1314 Vn + frr. (Cii)". DAMOS: Database of Mycenaean at Oslo. University of Oslo. Raymoure, K.A. "pe-re". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean. "The Linear B word pa-ma-ko". Palaeolexicon. Word study tool of ancient languages.
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