Role of pharmacy technicians in the development of clinical pharmacy.

摘要

It is very interesting to look back 40 years-one generation-to see how pharmacy has progressed as a profession. Just 4 decades ago, while sitting in pharmacy school, students may have heard the professor state something like this: "If the patient asks you what the medication is that the doctor prescribed for them, ask the patient why he went to the doctor, if he states it was because of the pain in his joints, tell him that the medication prescribed is good for that. No need to even put the name of the medication on the label, unless requested to do so by the physician. Otherwise, the patient may lose faith in the medical professionals." This evasiveness regarding the drug, its adverse effects, and the diagnosis led patients to believe that members of the medical profession were only doing what was best for them.