I am a pharmacy student.
One skeptical that often being mislead about pharmacy is that: we ONLY sell medications. Sad but it's a true story. That's how people seeing this field.
Unlike any other country, Malaysian people tends to not appreciate this job. Which they always have this stupid mind set saying doctor's job is much better and it's much worth. While the rest of the medical fields are not worthy at all. Which is extremely hurtful and hateful things to hear.
As I am (still) talking to my long lost ex classmate when we were in secondary school, each minutes gone worse. He still compares physician field with pharmacy field. And my blood is boiling. So to ensure that I don't appear as monster to him, I purposely and slowly changing the subject. Don't get me wrong, I did explain to him in nicest way I could that how, in a very simple yet short way of backing up pharmacy and other medical fields, we as a medical field person collaborates toward one another to make things smooth and eventually effective.
Apart from medical field people, I think almost 70% of citizens would not appreciate our efforts. I used to have had this acquaintance (long story) and he was a first year medical student in Kursk. I have no idea how could he be so stupid and arrogant and praised worship his field. This bastard in conclusion, act so almighty and it was obvious that he looked down at me because I am in pharmacy field.
Seeing how arrogant that bastard could be, it's totally waste to explain to him ways of how our field could work. I tried but this is all he said: apart from dispensing medications, what could you guys actually do? I mean I understand you have to work with patients but how?
I explained to him in the simplest form, state that apart from dispensing, we actually do extemporaneous preparations ( mind this, our hospital is in rural area and we are not fully develop country so we have to make our own medications), advise doctors on medications, check if there's drug-drug interactions, etc.. I'm talking about hospital wise, not others. Besides, my field is not only limited to hospital but also to others such as pharmaceuticals industrial, clinical research, teaching field blaa blaa you named it.
The arrogant and bliss coming from ungrateful human makes me sick. Physicians could not work well without the rest of medical team, so does pharmacy, nurse, mrt, etc! So therefore, don't judge my field of choice because without my field, you guys won't even have medicines to begin with!
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