Pharmacist in Relation to the Medical Profession

Limitation of Professional Activity: It is expected that medical practitioners do not practice pharmacy and own drug store. Medical practitioners also practice pharmacy by decoding prescriptions and owning a drug store or pharmacy will bring their monopoly in the medical field. It will be a detrimental effect on the pharmaceutical profession. Medical practitioners’ time consumed for this activity is not in the interest of patients. Thus in return, it is also expected that pharmacists will not involve in diagnosis and advise patients to cure disease and to prescribe medicine.

Under no circumstances pharmacist will diagnose disease, prescribe medicine, or practice medicine. He should not involve himself in these entire activities even request from his patron. In an emergency or accident, a pharmacist may provide first aid to the patient in absence of a medical practitioner.

Pharmacist should not recommend any specific medical practitioner to the patient.

Clandestine Arrangements: Pharmacist should not offer any commission or gift or any other advantages to the medical practitioner to recommend his pharmacy or dispensary or drug store.

There should not be any secret the understanding between pharmacists and medical practitioners.

Liaison with the public:  Pharmacist is the link between the medical practitioner and patient. Thus pharmacists must equip themselves with recent advancements in medical and pharmaceutical fields. He should regularly read books, journals, magazines to update himself with recent development. So that he could advise patients regarding new dosage form, new medicines available, and other pharmaceutical matters color, flavoring agents, vehicles, etc.

His up-to-date knowledge also helps me to guide and educate patient and people regarding the healthy and sanitary conditions of living to protect them from diseases and disorders

By all these activities pharmacists play an important role to contribute to nation-building activities. Pharmacists should always try to acquire information to promote his knowledge to contribute his share in learning advancement.

A pharmacist acquires various personal information of the patient during providing pharmaceutical services. He should not disclose any information of the patient to any other person even on request of his patron. His eminent character and conduct should be unshakable. He should not betray the confidence of the patient and his patron in the pharmacist. He can disclose this information on the demand of the law.