Re: Doctors Versus Pharmacists/Who Is More Qualified To Prescribe Drugs?
Re: Doctors Versus Pharmacists/Who Is More Qualified To Prescribe Drugs?
I think our our pharmacists are very underused - all that talent just to count boxes of pills in a prescription? (might be showing a touch of ignorance there ...) but in Spain, their pharmacists carry out a more general approach for everyday things and doctors are consulted for more serious things.Re: Doctors Versus Pharmacists/Who Is More Qualified To Prescribe Drugs?
Agreed Uff - I've twice had pharmacists correct a GPs prescribed medication -the first time was after I'd reacted badly to something (own fault for not sticking to my usual chemist) and when I showed him what I'd been given, his first comment was 'why have you been given this?' - he took it off me and rang our surgery to question it; turns out that the GP had written the wrong thing down and had I stuck to my usual chemist, he would have picked up on it straight away. GPs often have to look stuff up in their little books.Re: Doctors Versus Pharmacists/Who Is More Qualified To Prescribe Drugs?
Re: Doctors Versus Pharmacists/Who Is More Qualified To Prescribe Drugs?
When I started, or took over, the rigmarole of dishing out tablets to my parents I was shocked to see all the side effects. Some of the tablets had side effects in a listing that were as long as your arm. I can well understand that the doctor would not mention these unless he was particularly concerned about them.Re: Doctors Versus Pharmacists/Who Is More Qualified To Prescribe Drugs?
I do think exercise is underrated for a few things - I know that exercise lowered my cholesterol levels (then got Bursitis from a spot of digging that went undiagnosed for 18 months by my GP and that put paid to being as physically active as I used to be and cholesterol started climbing). Maybe it's more a case of doctors relying on tablets too much?Re: Doctors Versus Pharmacists/Who Is More Qualified To Prescribe Drugs?
Just want to add my views. Been with my pharmacist for years now and trust him implicitly. It was him for instance who pointed out, on dispensing my newly prescribed drugs for diabetes, that I was from then on entitled to free medication, and that I could get an exemption certificate. Did my GP tell me? No.
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