Throughout my years in high school and participating in many hours with a community service program, I have been exposed to many nation and world issues. I have been exposed to the impacts of children’s cancer and the health issues impacting many third-world countries. I have also been introduced to many opportunities that have allowed me to grow as a person and become better aware of the events that are occurring all over the world. After all of my life experiences, I decided on a career that can benefit all communities, whether if they are first-world or third-world countries. My goal is to study in the field of pharmacology and become a pharmacologist. Based on the career I have chosen to pursue, there are several questions I have thought of.
While thinking about the career that I have chosen, my first question was simple. What does a pharmacologist do? At first, I thought they did was research and work in a laboratory. But then I started researching and learning about their job and duties as a pharmacologist. It is true that pharmacologists work in a laboratory and do research but they can do much more. Besides doing research on the effects of drugs, they also do research on “gases, powders and other materials on peoples’ and animals’ health” (smysp.stanford.edu). They also study and develop drugs to treat and prevent diseases and illnesses. Not only are they able to create new drugs to treat current diseases and illnesses, pharmacologists also perform tests on many substances. They carry out studies and research on these substances to observe the effects they have on laboratory animals to conclude what effects they may have on humans. The main goal of pharmacologist is to create the “design of chemical agents to cure, improv...
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develop medical treatments, determine the toxicity of medications (usually in at least two species of animals), check the safety of products destined for human use, and other biomedical, commercial, and health care uses
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