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this might upset people, but my question is hard to search, i tried...
What relevant information do pharmacists know that MD's dont? the MD's diagnose then pick the correct drug for the job (the MD chooses all 300 drugs that come through my walgreens), and in walgreens there is about a 1% error rate (they never pick the wrong drug), like walgreens pharmacists just double checks the MD's choice. Is it just that pharmacists know MOA's? Interactions (but MD's have to know that too, more so because they actually put together the drug regime that is rarely wrong and littered with interactions)...Do the MD's just look at a big book and go through tables with indication correlating with the correct drug needed (so essentially they dont know but just have a big reference? like I said dont let this upset anyone, I am going to pharmacy school so this isnt some form of physician arrogance.
What relevant information do pharmacists know that MD's dont? the MD's diagnose then pick the correct drug for the job (the MD chooses all 300 drugs that come through my walgreens), and in walgreens there is about a 1% error rate (they never pick the wrong drug), like walgreens pharmacists just double checks the MD's choice. Is it just that pharmacists know MOA's? Interactions (but MD's have to know that too, more so because they actually put together the drug regime that is rarely wrong and littered with interactions)...Do the MD's just look at a big book and go through tables with indication correlating with the correct drug needed (so essentially they dont know but just have a big reference? like I said dont let this upset anyone, I am going to pharmacy school so this isnt some form of physician arrogance.