Pharmacy: Where Serving Others is the Key to Success

Pharmacy:

Where Serving Others Is the Key to Success

“Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe, especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.” As many look into pharmacy, a main point is regarded as how much they reach out to help others in need. With this career, the goal of the pharmacist is to assist the ones who can not assist themselves. Moreover, there are many other responsibilities that come with this career. A pharmacist serves patients by dispensing medication to the public, giving pharmacological information to health care providers, selling over the counter medications in community businesses, and much more. These responsibilities come with the desire to push and work through the many difficult tasks that are associated with this career. When examining the field of pharmacy, many details are needed to understand the job, such as the history, the educational background, and the on-the-job activities including the benefits and hazards this job contains. As time continues to pass, pharmacy is taking on a major role in the heath care society as well as many other roles they must continue to fill.

Along with the tasks that pharmacists peruse today, the origin of the career goes back to the early seventeenth century. Since King James I established Western society’s first independent pharmacist guild in England during the 17th century, pharmacy has held a central role in health care (Zebroski 1). The word pharmacy itself goes back in time to the Greeks. Around the time of Aristotle, the workers who compounded drugs were known as pharmakons. As the word has changed a little, the original and present form of the word still has the ...

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Throughout the requirements it takes to achieve the reward of becoming a pharmacist, many steps are taken including the good and the bad of what may be to come. A student must be willing to stay focused and have time management to be able to complete this drawn out task. As the history continues to relate, time goes on but workers can still look back to what once was. Pharmacy has been around for many years, and continues to grow with new education, activities, and duties that relate to when it first began. Also, the benefits are becoming more rewarding as time goes on and still allows for greater reward than ever before. With the hazards this job contains, the risk is also becoming higher, but the benefits overtake that when it comes into consideration. In this century, pharmacy has became one of the top six occupations, and continues to increase as time goes on.