pharmacy
Sign in to saveright|thumb|250px|The Green Pharmacy Cross (sometimes overlaid with Bowl of Hygieia), is widely used in on pharmacy signs. thumb|A medication is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. thumb|The Apothecary or The Chemist by Gabriël Metsu (–67)
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A pharmacy is a place where medications—drugs used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease—are prepared and dispensed to patients. Pharmacies matter because they provide people with access to the medicines they need to manage their health and treat illnesses.
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Key facts
- Occupation.name
- Pharmacy
- Occupation.image
- 190px
- Occupation.official_names
- Pharmacist, Chemist, Doctor of Pharmacy, Druggist, Apothecary or simply Doctor
- Occupation.type
- Professional
- Occupation.activity_sector
- Health care, health sciences, chemical sciences
- Occupation.formation
- Doctor of Pharmacy, Master of Pharmacy, Bachelor of Pharmacy, Diploma in Pharmacy
- Occupation.related_occupation
- Physician, pharmacy technician, toxicologist, chemist, pharmacy assistant, other medical specialists
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Article
34 sectionsContents
- Disciplines
- Professionals
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy support staff
- Pharmacy technicians
- Dispensing assistants
- Healthcare assistants/medicines counter assistants
- History
- Practice areas
- Community pharmacy
- Hospital pharmacy
- Clinical pharmacy
- Ambulatory care pharmacy
- Compounding pharmacy/industrial pharmacy
- Consultant pharmacy
- Membership pharmacy
- Veterinary pharmacy
- Nuclear pharmacy
- Military pharmacy
- Pharmacy informatics
- Specialty pharmacy
- Pharmaceutical sciences
- Society and culture
- Etymology<!--Linked from 'Pharmacology' and 'Pharmakos'-->
- Separation of prescribing and dispensing
- Environmental impacts
- The future of pharmacy
- Pharmacy journals
- Symbols
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
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Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it links health sciences with pharmaceutical sciences and natural sciences. The professional practice is becoming more clinically oriented as most of the drugs are now manufactured by pharmaceutical industries. Based on the setting, pharmacy practice is either classified as community or institutional pharmacy. Providing direct patient care in the community of institutional pharmacies is considered clinical pharmacy.