22/06/2025
This is why no patient can encounter me and leave without being educated on their medicines and safety! It is very vital for patient safety! Thank you for sharing Pharmers
The role of a pharmacist should be taught in all medical and nursing schools.
Every single qualified pharmacist in the world, thats worked in retail for over a year will tell you that, other healthcare professionals seem not to know their role.
This is TRAGIC.
How much worse for the public?
you not knowing that my integral role pertains to medicine and patient safety as a prescriber or patient makes you approach me differently!
You won't collaborate, you won't enquire, you won't be transparent if you think I provide no additional value or hold no new knowledge.
Healthcare doesn't belong to doctors, nurses, or other prescribers. It also doesn't belong to pharmacists.
Healthcare should always be centered around the PATIENT.
We (on the healthcare team) each play a distinct role in the patient's road to health and that should be taught in all schools, even from primary level going up.
I wrote a children's book called my first trip to the pharmacy. This book illustrates how from a tender age we should be instilling sound healthcare principles to our children.
As it stands, from birth to death, the average person NEVER has a lesson on personal / patient healthcare, advocacy for self and how to approach medicines in general.
Unless you do a pharmacy degree, you will never know why onset of symptoms matter, what an acute or chronic issue is and how to pick from 5 different classes of pain killers at the OTC counter...
Colleagues let's take our roles as educators seriously
