3 Things You Didn't Know About Your Pharmacist That Could Save Your Life
By www.menhealthonline.biz
One of the outcomes of most life-altering diagnoses is a treatment regimen that includes some type of medication. The doctor hands you a prescription and off to the pharmacy you go. Most people believe that all pharmacists do is count pills and slap a label on the bottle. They aren't aware of the training involved in becoming a pharmacist and that training could save your life.
Pharmacists Know More Than Doctors
Whether or not your doctor wants to admit it, the pharmacist knows more about interactions of medications than the doctor. A huge component of pharmacy training includes chemistry and learning the interactions between classes of medication. Doctors are more likely to know about the drugs they most use in their specialty, but don't have the in depth knowledge across specialties.
Pharmacist as Air Traffic Controller
When facing a life-altering health challenge you often see more than one doctor, especially if surgery is part of the treatment protocol. You may have prescriptions from each doctor. As a patient, you may be overwhelmed with the amount of medication your taking and it may not cross your mind to tell one doctor about the other medications you've been prescribed. Your pharmacist and thanks to modern technology will know about all your prescribed medications. The pharmacist will become alarmed if some of your medications are known to interact in a bad way. Computer programs in pharmacies also are able to cross reference interactions and display an alert if two of your medications may interact poorly. The pharmacist can literally save your life.
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