If you ever considered the idea of becoming a pharmacist, but still have many interrogations about this job, I strongly recommend that you read this article, or to ask your questions to the robot. This article summarizes the routine of a pharmacist, what it requires to do this job and some other important information about this job.
It is very challenging mentally, since you have to remember about a lot of different medicines, substances and drugs to give to your clients, and you could potentially put their health in danger if you commit a mistake. It will challenge your memory a lot.
Pharmacists must give medicines and drugs to their clients based on the symptoms they describe to them. Those medicines are prescribed by physicians and health practitioners. Also, pharmacists must keep computerized all the details about how each patient use medicines and drugs to make sure that they are not doing a bad mix of substances or that their dosage is not inappropriate.
Pharmacists take care of their clients every day, by giving them the appropriate medicines to heal them. To be a pharmacist is a job meant to help people, so the daily routine of pharmacist mainly consist of communication with sick people. Pharmacists also spend a lot of time preparing the medicines by mixing powders.
Pharmacists works in community pharmacies. In Quebec, these pharmacies are mostly known as Phamiliprix and Jean-Coutu. Most of the pharmacists also run the whole business related to the pharmacy, that includes all nonpharmaceutical merchandise.
To become a pharmacist, you need a doctorate degree in pharmacy and many years of experience in a hospital.
The total pay of a pharmacist, that includes annual salary, bonuses, tips, profit sharing and overtime pay, is between $74 000 and $116 000. This information is valid for Canadian pharmacists only.
You need a training in communication.
To be a pharmacist is a very safe job, there are no particular dangers that are related to this job. Of course, there is always the risk of robberies, but it is overall a low risk job.
The possibility that pharmacist are eventually going to be replaced by robots is certainly to be considered. Millions of different prescriptions, of different combinations of medicines could be registered on the computer that control each robot. But humans will never be replaced by robots because they can not understand what a client need with poor explanation of their symptoms. It could be very dangerous for the client if the machine does not give the appropriate medicine, and this could probably happen very often because robots will never be able to understand completely human feelings.
Pharmacists usually retire at the age of 62.
As you can see, pharmacist is a job that requires a lot of skills. It also requires a lot of studies and a lot of time to get rewarded. Personally, I just finished high school one year ago, so I still have a lot of work to do if I want to do this job in the future!
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Accuracy: probably true
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