Essay: A Career Of A Pharmacist

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Heriberto Rodriguez
Pharmacist
February 27, 2014
The career of a pharmacist is a very interested field that caught my attention and might catch the attention of other student. Due to having a high paying salary and great job benefits. Nonetheless, every career has it up’s and downs. For instance, a downside for perusing a pharmacist degree is that is take 6 to 7 seven years, but if the student loves school this would be great choice. Many students would probably be interested but not sure if this is the right carrier for them do to the lack of knowledge.
From the time when King James I created Western society’s “first independent pharmacist guild in England during the early 17th century”, pharmacy has become a important service for the people (Zebroski). Pharmacists were first known as “apothecaries” (Zebroski). Apothecaries did the same thing as today’s pharmacists. For example, they prepared their own medicine, distributed to the people, and gave their customers guidance. Eventually, the customs of apothecaries traveled all the way to the New World were it succeeded for centuries and became very popular for “one hundred fifty years, thanks to Edward Parrish” (Zebroski). The way pharmacists became to be know as pharmacists, started when Parrish proposed to “the members of the national professionals organization” to acknowledge all pharmaceutical practitioners as pharmacist (Zebroski). Pharmacist role had also change thought the years, because of the Federal legislation system.
What are the tasks of a pharmacist? A pharmacist has many jobs. For instance, a pharmacist is responsible for ‘advising patients about medicines”, given them instruction of when and how to take them, and dispensing the prescription to the customer (“What...

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...f pharmacist work full-time week. The highest complain that pharmacist argue about is the “work hours” (Farnen). Pharmacists also complain that they spend too much time running the business and bookkeeping and not enough time counseling patients. One of the controversial issues of a pharmacist is the right that pharmacist have to denied a prescription to a patient base on their beliefs (Petronis). The career pharmacist has its advantages and disadvantages just like other careers.
Pharmacist is a great career field if the student likes to help others and want’s to go to school for a long time. Even do pharmacist has great benefits like job growth; some of the student’s might not be able to handle the stress that comes with the career. Therefore, different things may or may not appeal to different types of personalities and individuals who want to become a pharmacist.

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