Healthy Skepticism Library item: 8848

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Publication type: Journal Article

Sonnedecker G.
American pharmacy--a retrospective future.
J Am Pharm Assoc 1973 Mar; 13:(3):128-30

Abstract:

The enlargement of the responsibilities of pharmacy by public mandate in the 21st century is discussed. Pharmacy is viewed as a computer based operation where pharmacy departments have an electronic console to handle a normal patient load by remote control. The public pharmacist, as differentiated from the average clinical pharmacist, is an expert in monitoring symptomatology and blood levels, and in controlling the drug depot implanted in a patient to achieve the physician’s prescribed therapeutic objectives. Pharmacists also handle the dispensing of stockpiles of artificial as well as natural limbs, organs and tissues. The removal of prescription drugs from the druggist’s sundry shop and the cessation of public advertising of even the rather innocuous range of medications they were still permitted to stock is described. The presence of a fully qualified pharmacist in the flying pharmacies that serve rural areas is advocated.

Keywords:
Legislation, Pharmacy Pharmacists Pharmacy* Societies, Pharmaceutical United States