Pharmacists - The drug designers
Tablets, capsules, syrups, vaccines and all the dosage
forms and drug delivery methods are not god made!!!
Each and every medicine both you and I have been using
ever since we were born is the hard work and years of lab studies and clinical
trials conducted by the healthcare professionals throughout the world.
Today the pharmaceutical industry has become one of the
largest industries in the world.
Yes we all fall sick and even the kings need medicine!!
Also it is the second largest mafia in the world !!!!!!!!
Role of Pharmacist in pharmaceutical industry...
- Research and development
A drug reaching the pharmacy is a long and lengthy
process which involves years and years of hard work and hours spent in
laboratories and clinical trials.
From the process of finding an active pharmaceutical
ingredients pharmacists are involved.
They may use the knowledge in pharmacology,toxicology,
pharmaceutics, chemistry, physiology and even bio pharmaceutics in developing a
sustainable dosage form. There are no miracles in this industry ....
- Manufacture and quality assurance
once the clinical trials are done with and drug is good
go with production it is the pharmacists who see to the process.
Drugs are
being manufactured as per the pharmacopoeia standards (BP,USP, JP, IP ) and
from the manufacturing to the quality control and quality assurance pharmacists
are involved.
As of all industries this is also profit oriented and
pharmacists face a huge challenge in meeting the best pharmaceutical standards
with an affordable cost to the patients with best safety and quality.
- Clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance
The pharmacist has the knowledge of drugs and health care
provision required to facilitate collaboration between companies, health
professionals and governments in relation to clinical trials and surveillance.
Drugs are under constant monitoring once introduced to
the market and all side effects, adverse events, quality complaints and
customer feedback are collected around the globe and pharmacist work day and
night to deliver best dosage forms to the patients.
- Sales and marketing
The pharmacist, whose professional ethics demand a
concern for the interest of patients, can make a contribution to proper
marketing practices related to health care and to the provision of appropriate
information to health professionals and the public .
so the medicines you get from your druggist is not Gods
work its the effort of millions of pharmacists and Health care professionals
working across the globe to supply you with an appealing dosage form you prefer
to swallow when you are really sick!
Piumishh - Bpharm (USJ)
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