Pharmacist
noun
A person who is trained to prepare and give out medicines in a hospital or a drugstore.
The pharmacist prescribed and gave me the medicine my doctor recommended.
Often appears as...
- registered pharmacist
- retail pharmacist
noun
A person who gives advice about health and the effects of drugs.
The pharmacist gave me some useful tips to prevent the flu.
Often appears as...
- ask your pharmacist
- consult a pharmacist
noun
A person who is trained to prepare and give out medicines in a hospital or a drugstore.
The pharmacist prescribed and gave me the medicine my doctor recommended.
Often appears as...
- registered pharmacist
- retail pharmacist
noun
A person who gives advice about health and the effects of drugs.
The pharmacist gave me some useful tips to prevent the flu.
Often appears as...
- ask your pharmacist
- consult a pharmacist
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Pro Tip 1/3Professional Role
Pharmacists often provide medication instructions and can answer drug-related questions.
Ask the pharmacist if this medicine should be taken with food.
Pro Tip 2/3Healthcare Setting
Pharmacists work in various settings, most commonly in pharmacies inside stores or hospitals.
I need to pick up my prescription from the hospital pharmacist before I leave.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Doctor
Remember that a pharmacist isn't the same as a doctor; they can't diagnose illnesses.
The pharmacist can suggest cough syrups, but only a doctor can diagnose the reason for your cough.
Pro Tip 1/3Professional Role
Pharmacists often provide medication instructions and can answer drug-related questions.
Ask the pharmacist if this medicine should be taken with food.
Pro Tip 2/3Healthcare Setting
Pharmacists work in various settings, most commonly in pharmacies inside stores or hospitals.
I need to pick up my prescription from the hospital pharmacist before I leave.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Doctor
Remember that a pharmacist isn't the same as a doctor; they can't diagnose illnesses.
The pharmacist can suggest cough syrups, but only a doctor can diagnose the reason for your cough.
Pro Tip 1/3Professional Role
Pharmacists often provide medication instructions and can answer drug-related questions.
Ask the pharmacist if this medicine should be taken with food.
Pro Tip 2/3Healthcare Setting
Pharmacists work in various settings, most commonly in pharmacies inside stores or hospitals.
I need to pick up my prescription from the hospital pharmacist before I leave.
Pro Tip 3/3Not a Doctor
Remember that a pharmacist isn't the same as a doctor; they can't diagnose illnesses.
The pharmacist can suggest cough syrups, but only a doctor can diagnose the reason for your cough.
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Eric Dishman: Health...
Allison, who helped manage the transplant list, and a dozen other people who aren't pictured, a pharmacist, a psychologist, a nutritionist, even a financial counselor, Lisa, who helped us deal with all the insurance hassles. I wept the day I graduated. I should have been happy, because I was so well that I could go back to my normal doctors,
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What really happens when...
They literally put on the web -- publicly available, you could all download it right now -- hundreds of thousands of adverse event reports from patients, doctors, companies, pharmacists. And these reports are pretty it has all the diseases that the patient has, all the drugs that they're on,
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Why People and AI Make...
I'm pretty sure my wife would buy me one of these if she could, just to help me in some of my conversations with her. Turns out the pharmacists like it quite a lot, too. They're more effective in their jobs, but they also learn something about themselves, their own behaviors and biases.
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Ken Jennings: Watson,...
under this new regime of thinking computers. And it hasn't been the last. If you watch the news, you'll see occasionally -- and I see this all the time -- that pharmacists now, there's a machine that can fill prescriptions automatically
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"The Nutritionist" by...
The yogi told me to stretch everything but truth, said focus on the outbreaths, said everyone finds happiness if they can care more about what they can give than what they get. The pharmacist said klonopin, lamictil, lithium, Xanax.
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Exploding Custard PIPE I...
pharmacist Alfred Byrd his wife was allergic to traditional egg custard so he came up with a corn flour based substitute but it wasn't until his friends sampled it that he realized its commercial potential and the now famous
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How does your body...
personalized to your liver efficiency and other factors, but in the meantime, your best bet is reading the label or consulting your doctor or pharmacist, and taking the recommended amounts with the recommended timing.
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Bono: Action for Africa
Communication is very important for Ethiopia -- will transform the country. Nurses getting better training, pharmacists being able to order supplies, doctors sharing their expertise in all aspects of medicine.
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How did clouds get their...
and go on to change humanity's understanding of the skies. Luke Howard was a pharmacist by profession, but he was a meteorologist by inclination, having been obsessed by clouds and weather since childhood.
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How aspirin was...
could cure a fever. It took nearly another 70 years for a German pharmacist, Johann Buchner, to finally identify and purify the substance that made all this possible, a compound called salicin.
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Eric Dishman: Health...
Allison, who helped manage the transplant list, and a dozen other people who aren't pictured, a pharmacist, a psychologist, a nutritionist, even a financial counselor, Lisa, who helped us deal with all the insurance hassles. I wept the day I graduated. I should have been happy, because I was so well that I could go back to my normal doctors,
Video examples
What really happens when...
They literally put on the web -- publicly available, you could all download it right now -- hundreds of thousands of adverse event reports from patients, doctors, companies, pharmacists. And these reports are pretty it has all the diseases that the patient has, all the drugs that they're on,
Video examples
Why People and AI Make...
I'm pretty sure my wife would buy me one of these if she could, just to help me in some of my conversations with her. Turns out the pharmacists like it quite a lot, too. They're more effective in their jobs, but they also learn something about themselves, their own behaviors and biases.
Video examples
Ken Jennings: Watson,...
under this new regime of thinking computers. And it hasn't been the last. If you watch the news, you'll see occasionally -- and I see this all the time -- that pharmacists now, there's a machine that can fill prescriptions automatically
Video examples
"The Nutritionist" by...
The yogi told me to stretch everything but truth, said focus on the outbreaths, said everyone finds happiness if they can care more about what they can give than what they get. The pharmacist said klonopin, lamictil, lithium, Xanax.
Video examples
Exploding Custard PIPE I...
pharmacist Alfred Byrd his wife was allergic to traditional egg custard so he came up with a corn flour based substitute but it wasn't until his friends sampled it that he realized its commercial potential and the now famous
Video examples
How does your body...
personalized to your liver efficiency and other factors, but in the meantime, your best bet is reading the label or consulting your doctor or pharmacist, and taking the recommended amounts with the recommended timing.
Video examples
Bono: Action for Africa
Communication is very important for Ethiopia -- will transform the country. Nurses getting better training, pharmacists being able to order supplies, doctors sharing their expertise in all aspects of medicine.
Video examples
How did clouds get their...
and go on to change humanity's understanding of the skies. Luke Howard was a pharmacist by profession, but he was a meteorologist by inclination, having been obsessed by clouds and weather since childhood.
Video examples
How aspirin was...
could cure a fever. It took nearly another 70 years for a German pharmacist, Johann Buchner, to finally identify and purify the substance that made all this possible, a compound called salicin.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian Writer
Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child.
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Walter Cronkite
American Journalist
Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
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Kamaru Usman
Nigerian Athlete
As an African, there are certain professions your family want you to do or are willing to sign off. Being in the medical professional, as a doctor, pharmacist, a nurse, or being an engineer - those are the only professions allowed!
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John Harsanyi
Hungarian Economist
My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.
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Walter Matthau
American Actor
I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.
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Dick Durbin
American Politician
You would think that, at this point, with records being kept and the vast amount of knowledge on these drugs, the pharmacists could wave off prescriptions that are dangerous to customers.
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Claude Chabrol
French Director
My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
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Tunde Adebimpe
American Musician
My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.
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Caroline Mulroney
Canadian Public Servant
I spoke at a number of conventions, like for pharmacists and cosmetologists, so I've done a lot of public speaking in my life.
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George Ryan
American Politician
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian Writer
Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child.
Quote examples
Walter Cronkite
American Journalist
Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
Quote examples
Kamaru Usman
Nigerian Athlete
As an African, there are certain professions your family want you to do or are willing to sign off. Being in the medical professional, as a doctor, pharmacist, a nurse, or being an engineer - those are the only professions allowed!
Quote examples
John Harsanyi
Hungarian Economist
My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.
Quote examples
Walter Matthau
American Actor
I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.
Quote examples
Dick Durbin
American Politician
You would think that, at this point, with records being kept and the vast amount of knowledge on these drugs, the pharmacists could wave off prescriptions that are dangerous to customers.
Quote examples
Claude Chabrol
French Director
My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
Quote examples
Tunde Adebimpe
American Musician
My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.
Quote examples
Caroline Mulroney
Canadian Public Servant
I spoke at a number of conventions, like for pharmacists and cosmetologists, so I've done a lot of public speaking in my life.
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George Ryan
American Politician
While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
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