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Originally Posted by admin  Fair enough Jeff, that's nice to know. Maybe I've just been unlucky with the people I've worked with recently. I don't remember saying they were Polish though.
My point was that if there are people with what seems like very little clinical knowledge, do you actually need it, or are they a disaster waiting to happen? I feel that I use clinical knowledge every day, but if you don't have much then you can't, can you. If you don't know what the autonomic nervous system is, why would you question beta blockers/asthma or sympathomimetics/hypertension to be possible problems?
I also don't understand why there seems to be such a variance in people's knowledge, when they are all around the same age. Obviously this is true for British pharmacists too, but I generally find that two young pharmacists from the UK universities have a similiar level of knowledge. I know many other factors come into being a good pharmacist, but just sticking to drug knowledge I don't understand how you can be a registered pharmacist in the UK and have no knowledge of the things I listed in the first post on this. |
I worked with a Spanish Pharmacist a few weeks who was asked by the healthcare counter assistant if blood pressure tablets interacted with senokot - She proceded to examine the box of Senokot for an answer! (I saved her the brain meltdown and shouted NO!)
What really disappoints me about pharmacy is that she is perceived as being a good Pharmacist by the Dispensers and also other Pharmacist managers because she is quick at dispensing. I never once saw her deal with a minor ailment query or clinical question, instead she would call me over but address the problem in a manner that she couldn't be bothered dealing with it (She's a supervising pharmacist).
It's like I joined a profession where having more knowledge actively counts against you, the main thing is to be fast as possible at dispensing. I'm newly qualified and disheartened with this empty profession.