What exactly do pharmacists do?

[Booza]

Are they involved in creating medicines at all? Could they work for pharmaceutical co's?

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[Booza]

But 18 views and no reply seems suspect.

 

[tlh908]

Pharmacists can do a large range of functions, from retail to industry to academic work to hospital and clinical work. In retail there are pharmacists who do compounding, although these pharmacists are usually the few independents that are still left. In the hospital, many larger hospitals will have a pharmacists dedicated to compounding IV's. So if you want to do compounding, the jobs are out there.

 

[INevrLearn]

Pharmacists who graduate with a PharmD/PhD option are generally the pharmacists involved in the medication discovery process. Your run-of-the-mill pharmacist is not prepared to go into this area upon graduation.

 

[Dr JPH]

I have several friends working for pharmaceutical companies.

Many of them are in the marketing and rep jobs.

One friend of mine translates the package inserts from English to some Indian dialect. He says its boring, but they pay him well and he gets nice benefits.