I've never known a hospital outside of school (and extremely large multi-doctor hospitals) that had an employee that was exclusively a pharmacist. Granted these were smaller private practices - the veterinarians dispense the drugs or just write scripts for a pharmacy down the road or online.
With the way the industry is going from things I've read, Wal-Mart and other big chains are starting to get a bigger chunk of the pharm business and are going in after pet medications now. Pet-Meds is scared and veterinarians are becoming resigned to the fact that the in-house pharmacy is going to dwindle down a lot. So, get a job at Wal-Mart or Target if you want in on the future of dispensing veterinary drugs and interacting with the owners?
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JosephKnechtDVM I love your posts. And that is hilarious.
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rxlea I'm 99.999999% sure such a thing does not exist. There are hardly any marine mammal jobs for veterinarians first of all and I'm sure those facilities order directly from the companies and keep all the drugs they use regularly on hand. And facilities that call in outside veterinarians are going to find one that makes calls and carries what they need with them.
Veterinarians learn all the mechanisms, side-effects, interactions, and therapeutic uses for drugs so we usually have the pharmacy thing covered. And veterinarians working with exotic animals are going to be contacting other colleagues and reading case-studies to figure out therapies for things that haven't been well studied yet anyways.