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Do doctors have less, more, or the same level of knowledge of drugs as pharmacists do?
don't MD's have less than a year of pharmacology. Docs do it as a learn as you go sort of thing. My friends doc would pull out a little notebook and run down the list of "ailments" and "drug recommended" haha
1 semester... So yea, less than a year.
pharmacists get a lot more training in school on this than M.D.s/DO.s but after that it depends on what a pharm or physician does to further their knowledge
Is this a joke?? PHARMACISTS ARE SUPERIOR--hands down!!!Do doctors have less, more, or the same level of knowledge of drugs as pharmacists do?
I love thatThis thread reminds me of a t-shirt I saw when I was visiting the UCSF CoP.
"I had 8 semesters of pharmacology, your physician had 1 - Who do you trust?"
ExactlyWithout a doubt, pharmacist have more knowledge than doctors.. think about it, if doctors were so knowledgeable about it, then why do they carry pdas around with them to look up drug info..
Without a doubt, pharmacist have more knowledge than doctors.. think about it, if doctors were so knowledgeable about it, then why do they carry pdas around with them to look up drug info..
Without a doubt, pharmacist have more knowledge than doctors.. think about it, if doctors were so knowledgeable about it, then why do they carry pdas around with them to look up drug info..
This is only true depending on the way you approach the issue. Pharmacists have more knowledge about Drugs and their interactions in the human body. Doctors are better at diagnosis. I will personally say a Doctor has more knowledge than a pharmacists overall. Doctors work under more pressure and often have to deal with emergancy procedures whereby time is a factor. A pharmacist can dispense easily. A doctor may have a matter of seconds to make a life saving decision. The doctors rule!!!
This is only true depending on the way you approach the issue. Pharmacists have more knowledge about Drugs and their interactions in the human body. Doctors are better at diagnosis. I will personally say a Doctor has more knowledge than a pharmacists overall. Doctors work under more pressure and often have to deal with emergancy procedures whereby time is a factor. A pharmacist can dispense easily. A doctor may have a matter of seconds to make a life saving decision. The doctors rule!!!
I agree with this statement.This is only true depending on the way you approach the issue. Pharmacists have more knowledge about Drugs and their interactions in the human body. Doctors are better at diagnosis. I will personally say a Doctor has more knowledge than a pharmacists overall. Doctors work under more pressure and often have to deal with emergancy procedures whereby time is a factor. A pharmacist can dispense easily. A doctor may have a matter of seconds to make a life saving decision. The doctors rule!!!
Why are you guys even comparing, they are two different things.
Doctor focus on medicine, but actually focus more than medicine.
I agree with this statement.
You should go to the hospital and see what the Doctor does, compare to what the pharmacist does, they are two different things.
I hope the pharm.ds I work with in the future no more about the drugs than me! I'm assuming that knowledge and part of the care team is very important! I'll also take the first Pharm. out to dinner if they save one of my patient's lives.
Random fact: My grandfather wanted to be a pharmicist back in the day (20's/30's) but ended up being a Steel Worker.
This is going to be a super-dumb question, but before the advent of the "Drug era" (1960s+), what exactly would a Pharmacist do? Dispense Laudanum?
This is going to be a super-dumb question, but before the advent of the "Drug era" (1960s+), what exactly would a Pharmacist do? Dispense Laudanum?
This is going to be a super-dumb question, but before the advent of the "Drug era" (1960s+), what exactly would a Pharmacist do? Dispense Laudanum?
Topic is drug knowledge, not diagnosis. No ones trying to undermine what a doctor does obviously.
So a Pharmacist is only superior in his ability to dispense?
Do you even work in a pharmacy yet?
Physicians by and large do not have the time that it takes to know the Top 200/300 like we are expected to, just for starters.