Pharmacist in Pakistan is frequently exposed to same questions again and again and they are really tired of answering these questions repeatedly.
RPh is tired of answering these questions to all the uncle and aunties of the family.RPh is very much irritated with this situation and from now on he has decided to reply every question with sarcasm.
This blog contains all the FAQs with Rangeela's Answer and actual answer.RPh will try to write it as simple as possible so as to meet the I.Q level of those uncle and aunties
Following are these FAQs
Q) What is your qualification?
RPh : "Pharm-Deeh"
Answer: Pharm-D
Q) So what do you basically do?
RPh : "Puncture lagata hun!!"
Answer : Pharmacist is involve in every step related to drugs use and its manufacturing, from extracting compounds from the plants to manufacture it in different formulation and finally making sure that these drugs are used appropiately.
Q) Your name has a Prefix of Dr. ,Are you really a Dr.?
RPh: "Nai , Asal mai main Tire ka Engineer hun.Bataya na Puncture lagata hun!!."
Answer: Yes I am a Doctor but you have to understand this that I am Pharmacist not a Physician.
Q) So What is the difference b/w a Physician and a Pharmacist?
RPh: "Jaisa billi Sher ki khala hoti hai waisa he Physician or Pharmacist hotay hain "
Answer : Physicians are involve in diagnosing diseases and prescribing medications.Physicians usually consult Pharmacist to apropiately prescribed medications with their right dose , frequency and duration. Pharmacist frequently intervene Physicians when these medications are not apropiately prescribed.
Q) You intervene them? does this mean that Pharmacist are more qualified than Physicians?
RPh : "Galti hogai baye ab nai karunga Intervene !!"
Answer : No, this doesn't mean that Pharmacist are more qualified. Physicians are experts in their own field while we are experts in our own field.Both Physician and Pharmacists are a part of health care team with a single goal of Patient care.There are instances where Physician and Pharmacist conflict but this is just for the sake of Patient care.
Q) I have seen Pharmacist working in Pharmaceutical industries ,what they basically do?
RPh : "bus Asan sa kam hai! kuch machino k Nut tyt krnay hotay hain"
Answer: There are a lot of departments in Pharmaceutical industries where the expertise of a Pharmacist is needed like QC , QA ,Production ,Sales and Marketing , R&D etc.They have different roles and responsbilities in these department.
Q) I have also seen a few of Pharmacist working in a medical store? what they are doing there?
RPh: "Dhoodh bechtay hain!! Ap ko kitnay litre chaiya?
Answer: This is the role where Pharmacist is directly helping community.Their responsibilities involve counselling the Patients about the usage of their medication.They counsell about when to consult their Physicians if they are expirencing any side effects with these medications and also when to stop taking those medications or continue till your Pharmacist or Physicians instruct you to stop it.
You might have expirienced these questions or not but now you know how to handle these kind of questions.You can choose to answer like RPh or the actual answer.
RPh is tired of answering these questions to all the uncle and aunties of the family.RPh is very much irritated with this situation and from now on he has decided to reply every question with sarcasm.
This blog contains all the FAQs with Rangeela's Answer and actual answer.RPh will try to write it as simple as possible so as to meet the I.Q level of those uncle and aunties
Following are these FAQs
Q) What is your qualification?RPh : "Pharm-Deeh"
Answer: Pharm-D
Q) So what do you basically do?
RPh : "Puncture lagata hun!!"
Answer : Pharmacist is involve in every step related to drugs use and its manufacturing, from extracting compounds from the plants to manufacture it in different formulation and finally making sure that these drugs are used appropiately.
Q) Your name has a Prefix of Dr. ,Are you really a Dr.?
RPh: "Nai , Asal mai main Tire ka Engineer hun.Bataya na Puncture lagata hun!!."
Answer: Yes I am a Doctor but you have to understand this that I am Pharmacist not a Physician.
Q) So What is the difference b/w a Physician and a Pharmacist?
RPh: "Jaisa billi Sher ki khala hoti hai waisa he Physician or Pharmacist hotay hain "
Answer : Physicians are involve in diagnosing diseases and prescribing medications.Physicians usually consult Pharmacist to apropiately prescribed medications with their right dose , frequency and duration. Pharmacist frequently intervene Physicians when these medications are not apropiately prescribed.
Q) You intervene them? does this mean that Pharmacist are more qualified than Physicians?
RPh : "Galti hogai baye ab nai karunga Intervene !!"
Answer : No, this doesn't mean that Pharmacist are more qualified. Physicians are experts in their own field while we are experts in our own field.Both Physician and Pharmacists are a part of health care team with a single goal of Patient care.There are instances where Physician and Pharmacist conflict but this is just for the sake of Patient care.
Q) I have seen Pharmacist working in Pharmaceutical industries ,what they basically do?
RPh : "bus Asan sa kam hai! kuch machino k Nut tyt krnay hotay hain"
Answer: There are a lot of departments in Pharmaceutical industries where the expertise of a Pharmacist is needed like QC , QA ,Production ,Sales and Marketing , R&D etc.They have different roles and responsbilities in these department.
Q) I have also seen a few of Pharmacist working in a medical store? what they are doing there?
RPh: "Dhoodh bechtay hain!! Ap ko kitnay litre chaiya?
Answer: This is the role where Pharmacist is directly helping community.Their responsibilities involve counselling the Patients about the usage of their medication.They counsell about when to consult their Physicians if they are expirencing any side effects with these medications and also when to stop taking those medications or continue till your Pharmacist or Physicians instruct you to stop it.
You might have expirienced these questions or not but now you know how to handle these kind of questions.You can choose to answer like RPh or the actual answer.
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