A STUDY ON THE PHARMACIST'S ROLE IN HEALTH CARE AND DRUG DISCOVERY

Abstract

The pharmacist's role as a health caregiver in any society is so important, as the Pharmacists are essential healthcare professionals, who enhance patient care and promote wellness. While responsibilities vary among the different areas of pharmacy practice, pharmacist's role in real practical work (as in most of developing countries) is limited and different from that should be (as in most developed countries), and that because of many reasons as weak education, limited medical information sources data reporting and supplying. The pharmacist's role can be wider and more beneficial. In this research I tried to detect the main reasons and the solutions to these issues using many ways as questionnaires, health caregivers experience, and statics, and I tried to develop the pharmacist's role in real practical life (especially in developing and developed countries), to be more beneficial to the society as a medical caregiver, especially in the issues that related to medical and drug data supplying, safety data reporting, drug discovery, health care policy and disease treatment. The study in this research revealed that pharmacist's role in real practical work (or in most of developing countries) is different from it should be, and we should deal with these issues as an international issues not only as a local issues, and we should educate and encourage the pharmacists, all health caregivers and peoples about medical culture and the importance of the pharmacist's role in many aspects of health care process and drug discovery.