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Chemist or Pharmacy?

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    #32
    GalwayGrrrrrl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭GalwayGrrrrrl


    I’m a pharmacist and my degree is in pharmaceutical chemistry (bachelor of pharmacy). All pharmacists are chemists but not all chemists are pharmacists (ie a degree in chemistry does not allow you to be in charge of a pharmacy/chemist shop).


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    #33
    Conservatory
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    xfactorfan23 wrote: »
    I’m a pharmacist and my degree is in pharmaceutical chemistry (bachelor of pharmacy). All pharmacists are chemists but not all chemists are pharmacists (ie a degree in chemistry does not allow you to be in charge of a pharmacy/chemist shop).

    So are you saying you are better than them


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    #34
    Conservatory
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    Conservatory wrote: »
    So are you saying you are better than them

    A chemist is like a pharmacists laborer?


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    #35
    jackboy
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    xfactorfan23 wrote: »
    All pharmacists are chemists
    Are you sure? I've never heard of a pharmacist claiming to be a chemist. Just like a chemical engineer is also not a chemist.


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    #36
    RhubarbCrumble
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    I call the physical place the chemist but the person working there the pharmacist.
    When I was a kid though the man who owned the local 'that business' was HIMSELF known as Jimmy the chemist'.


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    #37
    freshpopcorn
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    I've only ever really heard it be called the Chemist. I can't even think of a time when somebody(I know) said they needed to go to the Pharmacy.


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    #38
    GalwayGrrrrrl
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    Conservatory wrote: »
    xfactorfan23 wrote: »
    I’m a pharmacist and my degree is in pharmaceutical chemistry (bachelor of pharmacy). All pharmacists are chemists but not all chemists are pharmacists (ie a degree in chemistry does not allow you to be in charge of a pharmacy/chemist shop).

    So are you saying you are better than them
    Not better, just different qualifications. As a pharmacist with 20 years experience I’d be pretty hopeless in a lab.


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    #39
    Conservatory
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    xfactorfan23 wrote: »
    Not better, just different qualifications. As a pharmacist with 20 years experience I’d be pretty hopeless in a lab.

    I’m sure you could make a tablet for that. A chemist would need you to tell them how to make it.


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    #40
    Stigura
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    " Boots the Chemist™ " sort of says it, for me.

    Growing up, the shop was always the 'Chemists Shop' and, I guess, the person behind the counter would have been " The Chemist ". I don't think people knew any better.

    For about the last twenty years though I've referred to the person as The Pharmacist, out of deep respect for their training and knowledge.

    Not actually sure what I'd call the shop now. I don't talk to anyone, any more, so don't get to use such a reference! :o


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    #41
    Irish Guitarist
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    Anyone in Ireland that calls it a pharmacist has most likely been influenced by Americans talking online in the same way that people on the television forum talk about the new season of a show.


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    #42
    Fred Swanson
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    #43
    BBDBB
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    If symptoms persist...


    you're doing it wrong


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    #44
    Omackeral
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    seachto7 wrote: »
    “Mom” “store”

    It’s mum and shop.

    No.


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    #45
    Day Lewin
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    As far as I know, in the USA a Drugstore is not a chemist shop: it sounds like one, but really it's a kind of corner shop, I think.

    They call a chemist shop a Pharmacy, and a drugstore is something else again. And probably not a place for storing drugs!


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    #46
    Akrasia
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    BBDBB wrote: »
    If symptoms persist...


    you're doing it wrong

    If symptoms persist, stop banging that person who clearly has an uncontrolled sexually transmitted infection


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    #47
    Donald Trump
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    Akrasia wrote: »
    If symptoms persist, stop banging that person who clearly has an uncontrolled sexually transmitted infection




    A holes a goal.




    And beggars can't be choosers


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    #48
    seachto7
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    No.

    Mam


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    #49
    mohawk
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    Day Lewin wrote: »
    As far as I know, in the USA a Drugstore is not a chemist shop: it sounds like one, but really it's a kind of corner shop, I think.

    They call a chemist shop a Pharmacy, and a drugstore is something else again. And probably not a place for storing drugs!

    ''Tis been a few years since I was stateside but they didn't have pharmacys they had drugstores. I never saw or heard the word pharmacy. The US is a big place though so maybe they use the word in the parts I haven't been to. The drugstores sold alcohol though which I thought was bizarre.


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    #50
    Donald Trump
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    mohawk wrote: »
    ''Tis been a few years since I was stateside but they didn't have pharmacys they had drugstores. I never saw or heard the word pharmacy. The US is a big place though so maybe they use the word in the parts I haven't been to. The drugstores sold alcohol though which I thought was bizarre.




    The larger chain shops tend to have pharmacies down the back. A separate section behind a counter where they'll fill a prescription. And it's usually labelled as such


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    #51
    Outlaw Pete
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    Always thought it was strange as a kid when I watched It's A Wonderful Life that George called the pharmacist a druggist, made me think he was a wrongun.


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    #52
    Pugzilla
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    Pharmacists are not chemists. A pharmacy degree is professional degree specifically for the safe dispensing and monitoring of medications. They study chemistry only to the point that is needed for the job (pharmacology). They have a much deeper understanding of how medications work than doctors. It's an important role as they'll often correct prescribing errors, advise on medication options and optimise dosages etc.

    Chemists are scientists, their theoetical knowledge can be far more in depth and specialised than that of a pharmacist and goes far beyond that of just pharmaceuticals. Lots of different fields in chemistry like organic, inorganic, physical, biochemistry .etc.
    Some of these overlap with physics and biology.


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    #53
    Akrasia
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    Pugzilla wrote: »
    Pharmacists are not chemists. A pharmacy degree is professional degree specifically for the safe dispensing and monitoring of medications. They study chemistry only to the point that is needed for the job (pharmacology). They have a much deeper understanding of how medications work than doctors. It's an important role as they'll often correct prescribing errors, advise on medication options and optimise dosages etc.

    Chemists are scientists, their theoetical knowledge can be far more in depth and specialised than that of a pharmacist and goes far beyond that of just pharmaceuticals. Lots of different fields in chemistry like organic, inorganic, physical, biochemistry .etc.
    Some of these overlap with physics and biology.
    Yeah, but who would be better at cooking meth in a breaking bad scenario?

    Just asking for a friend


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    #54
    Pugzilla
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    Akrasia wrote: »
    Yeah, but who would be better at cooking meth in a breaking bad scenario?

    Just asking for a friend


    Chemist. Apparently it's not that difficult at all to make meth.


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    #55
    [Deleted User]
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    The big sign over the top saying "pharmacy" made my mind up


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    #56
    andekwarhola
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    RhubarbCrumble wrote: »
    IWhen I was a kid though the man who owned the local 'that business' was HIMSELF known as Jimmy the chemist'.

    Sounds like the owner of a meth lab.


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    #57
    andekwarhola
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    Always chemist as a kid.

    Now, either, especially when ridiculed for being old by my kids (cf. saying The Pictures instead of The Cinema or, worse, The Movies).


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    #58
    Gyalist
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    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    Always thought it was strange as a kid when I watched It's A Wonderful Life that George called the pharmacist a druggist, made me think he was a wrongun.

    Where I grew up the signs usually said, "X - chemist and druggist".


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    #59
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Dude! Drugstores is where it's at, y'all!

    (Although failed to deliver what it promised ... :()
    About that, how come "Superdrug" doesn't sell pain killers ?


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    #60
    35cent
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    I use the term pharmacy as it's more accurate. I'm a chemist but you don't want me giving you advice about medicines :pac:


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    #61
    Fred Swanson
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