How to Get the Best Service at Your Pharmacy: Part 1
Submitted by lucky_pharmacist on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 16:13.
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How to Get the Best Service at Your Pharmacy?
Your experience at the pharmacy can be made more pleasant and you can also create a healthy relation with the pharmacist of the pharmacy.
Taking your medication properly is one of the best ways to decrease your health care costs & your pharmacist can definitely help you in this.
How can the Pharmacist help me?
The Pharmacist is available to talk about any concerns or questions you have about your medicines. The Pharmacist can give you information about:
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How to take your medicines
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Possible side effects
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How the drug might react with other medicines you are already taking
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How the drug might react with herbal products, vitamins and other supplements you are taking
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Cost of the medicines
Pharmacists are medication experts & they do much more than to just count tablets and pour liquids.
Try & interact with your pharmacist whenever you get an opportunity, he can work like an information source for the medication you take he can suggest you some tips which can help you to avoid drug related problems.
Ultimately, you have the responsibility for managing your health care, but your pharmacist can help if you keep him or her up-to-date about your health and the medications you are taking.
Try to use the same pharmacy for all of your prescription services, especially when seeing multiple health care providers to ensure that he/she can help you to avoid drug related problems or possible interactions.
You should also check with your pharmacist before taking any nonprescription medication.
Make sure your pharmacist is aware of your allergies to any medications so adverse reactions can be prevented.
By working together with your pharmacist, you can be sure that your medications are taken safely, effectively, and appropriately to maintain your good health. Pharmacists want you to know that they are always available to advise you about your medications.
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-the-Best-Service-at-Your-Pharmacy
http://www.lhsc.on.ca/Patients_Families_Visitors/LRCP/Pharmacy/index.htm
http://www.yourpharmacybenefit.org/documents/NPCwalletcard3.pdf
Dear Friends try and spread this information to all you friends who need help of you or a pharmacist. Let's help to improve patient pharmacist interaction and also to build a good repute of pharmacist in society.
Great thought....
Dear lakshya ,
I appreciate your idea and i would surely try ro spread this idea
Try to spread this idea to everyone
As I always say, your each and every step towards betterment of our profession and people associated with it will be appreciated.
Pharmacy services
All these things we read in book are all theoretical and far away from the reality. But in recent years trends are changing as more and more graduates coming out from the colleges and entry of big companies in the Pharmacy retail chain business.
They are not far from the reality
I know that these things being theoretical but I feel they are not far from the reality. I had attended some seminars by the association and when I listened to the experiences of customers and the pharmacists I knew these things are going to play vital role in near future. In fact I'll try to represent this idea more clearly in my coming blog.
Although the entry of major players in the retail market has increased the need for better situation in regular pharmacies but the practice has long been working in many of the towns.