The list of different pharmacists I mentioned last time didn't interest very much when I looked them up. I thought a compounding pharmacist would be interesting. But while it is a unique and important type of pharmacist it didn't interest me personally. Compounding pharmacists must come up with new formulation for a medicine when patients are allegoric or very sensitive to a drug. For example if a patient has trouble swallowing a pill instead of a pill it can be changed to a lollipop. I found this part interesting but then I read of the daily activities of these types of pharmacists. The compounding pharmacists mentioned in a place called Fair Oaks Pharmacy are on call twenty-four hours a day (which most likely isn't that unusual for a pharmacist) and in that time this one pharmacist who has been working there for years estimated that he fields from three to twelve emergency calls each week. One of the reasons I looked at pharmacy was because I was interested in working with medicines but without being the doctor who has to deal with emergency calls about patients and be on call. So I don't think a compounding pharmacist suits me. But I found that the list I was looking at actually goes on even more to include nuclear, nutrition support, oncology, operating room, pediatric, grocery chain, benefit manager, poison control, primary care, psychiatric, public health service, regulatory, and veterinary pharmacists. The operating room pharmacist made me curious because it had never occurred to me that pharmacists did anything involving surgery. But from what I read it is actually obvious they are involved since who else would prepare the medications before the surgery. Can you imagine what would happen if the anesthesia didn't work and you were conscious during surgery? I then looked at the grocery chain pharmacists. These pharmacists are the ones people are the most familiar with. They are the ones in the pharmacy at Wegmans that many people get their medicine from. Dr.Traina mentioned one of her colleagues at St.John Fisher being this type. Brooke Lowry works for Wegmans and teaches at St.John Fisher. She basically has people come in to her throughout the day to ask about medicines and why problems are occurring. I will go more into Dr.Lowry's academic side next time when I discuss sitting in on her class. So after finishing my research on different types of pharmacy I have concluded to just stick with shadowing Dr.Traina and viewing academic pharmacy. Currently I still have not found any aspect of pharmacy I've seen that has my full attention.References:
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