This profession has no backbone due to several reasons. Here are some:
1. Politics, lobbying, power. There is no way AphA has as much power as AMA, or even close to ANA (nursing), or even AAPA (for PA), or ADA. Also, take a look at the hospital CEO. Most of them have nursing background (RN+MBA), MD or business background. When do you ever see a Pharm.D run a hospital? There might be, but rare.
2. Pharmacists are "fine" with 50-60 something/hour attitude.
3. Garbage in = garbage out! I sometimes can't believe how some people could have become pharmacists with slobby attitude and cussing out mouths during work. You rarely see an MD cussing out or dressing slobby....The problem is while majority of pharmacists are professional appealing, some are extremely ghetto and lousy.
4. Public appealing. I work as a pharmacist in the hospital and sadly, some of my friends, who are at master degree level, ask me ,"SO you stand 8 hours a day and fill a lot of medications huh?". Public still see us as pill pushers!!!!! This never gonna change until...i dun know when. If you talk about clinical pharmacy to them, they have no F* idea what u are BS about...
5. Too many pharmacists. Thanks to new schools and a saturated job market, nowsaday, you can find a pharmacist easily to replace another one. Gone the day of bonus, etc...market is flooded with pharmacists from old schools, new schools, and openning schools.
more to come...