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Are pharmacists just failed doctors and dentists?

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For the love of God, NO. I never wanted to be a doctor, except when I was about 7 or something when you literally just want to do any job you know the name of. I don't like organs and I'm not a massive fan of other peoples blood, I wanted to be a dentist for a while then realised I preferred the idea of pharmacy and working with medicines. I want to help people but I don't want to be a doctor, pharmacy seemed like a good call. Although on Friday I had a placement in a community pharmacy and they said being a doctor was more money for less hassle. Also, considering that if a patient is harmed we get equally blamed shows that pharmacist has a pretty significant role, it's our job to make sure the doctor's don't fudge up and they're not trying to give a patient a dosage that is completely unsafe, or giving them two medicines that might interact, or taking OTC medicines or herbal remedies that might interact. Pharmacists in hospitals can specialise in a similar way to doctors, you could go into radiopharmacy or oncology, chemotherapy drugs are extremely complex, they've got to be tailored for the patient.

I am so fed up of people suggesting that I'm doing pharmacy because I didn't get into medicine. Loads of my friends applied for pharmacy without applying for medicine at all, they're not the same career.
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A lot of them, yes.
Original post by alevelzzz
A lot of them, yes.


Is there any particular reason why you decided to resurrect a one and a half year old thread? :confused:
Original post by thegodofgod
Is there any particular reason why you decided to resurrect a one and a half year old thread? :confused:


Was on the pharmacy page thing, didn't actually see when it was from
Original post by alevelzzz
Was on the pharmacy page thing, didn't actually see when it was from


Fair enough.

So are you getting your results tomorrow? Best of luck!
Well, I guess I should reconsider my career path. I need to get into med school. Period!!!! Pharmacy is sure not for me.
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I was top student in A levels and I became a pharmacist. Whereas some of the students with inferior grades became doctors. I was appalled to find out the generalisation about pharmacists choosing our career path because they could not get into medicine, now that is just narrow mindedness. I love and respect my fellow doctors just as I hope they respect me too. As we do need each other really.

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