Which degree would me more respected? money wise and career wise...

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Reply 20

v2006

no no wait, pharmacists are going to be given prescription rights lol.

Reply 21

Random.Girl

flugestuge

When did pharmacists start treating patients ?
Doctors treat patients
If medications are appropriate treatment, doctors decide on the medications.

Pharmacists are just medication dispensers.
In fact, in many countries, pharmacies are called dispensaries and pharmacists are called dispensers.

A pharmacist can still treat a patient. They can sell pharmacy only medicines, they can give some prescription medicines without a prescription, oh and yeah some can prescribe!! Wow, fancy that! :wink:

Also they help doctors out a lot when making decisions and adjustments to medication. Granted they don't do as much as a doctor does to treat a patient but they do contribute.

I don't know any pharmacists who routinely dispense. In the UK pharmacists are called pharmacists and the dispensers are called technicians or dispensing ATOs :p:

Reply 22

ChemistBoy

flugestuge

Look, if you are going to criticise a profession at least have the courtesy to find out what that profession involves. Once more on TSR ignorance is mistaken for knowledge. Medics have never had the monopoly on treating people anyway.

Reply 23

Sirus

A pharmacy degree is a vocational subject that means you are trained to do a paticular task. This would be distributing pharmaceuticals to patients whom have prescriptons from doctors. You would have to dispense the amount prescribed by the doctor and ensure that its a suitable dosing regime so not to cause some adverse reaction. Doctors don't know all the details precisely.

Maths is a degree which trains you to think logically and solve problems. These courses do not lead directly into a specified job. But they do make you develop applicable skills through the course which potential employers require from graduates. Doing maths should make you more specified to technologically-themed jobs. Working for a corparation whivh develops computer hardware for example.

Intially moneywise pharmacy would be more suited as you shall gain direct access to a job which pays. Whereas with maths you shall have to search for an employer which requires the candidate to have those skills, it's more a log-winded process. Or you have the option of taking further training to improve your applicability in a chosen frontier.

What is respect to you? Most academics see maths as a very rigorous subject. Therefore if you study it and do well you have gained respect. Other non-academics don't see the difference. So if a definite money paying job is what your after choose pharmacy.

Reply 24

ChemistBoy

Sirus

It is also a scientific degree and you are trained as a scientist as well as a healthcare professional.

What is respect to you? Most academics see maths as a very rigorous subject. Therefore if you study it and do well you have gained respect. Other non-academics don't see the difference. So if a definite money paying job is what your after choose pharmacy.

I wouldn't say that academics respect mathematics any more than pharmacy at all. Certainly the many pharmacists that I work with are capable and astute scientists who clearly have a good, intellectually rigorous grounding in their field, they are at no disadvantage when going into academic research compared to someone who has done another, less vocational degree.

Reply 25

Sirus

Maths is traditionally a "pure" science. Mathematics is the fundamental cornerstone of all logic and statistical testing. It's pivotal for accuracy of dosing regimes. It's a large component of physics. Stephen Hawkins and Albert Einestine both had to be well grounded in the analysis and manipulation of quantitative data. Which they could do as they studied pure Maths.

Pharmacy is composed of components from different disciplines. For example biology, molecular chemistry, toxicology, pharmacology, physiology and subject-specific maths. Pharmacists are taught to do a practical task with a job at the end. They learn generic science skills. A pharmacist would be no more suited than a biomedical scientist for general lab work. It would depend on the degree classification, interview technique and vitality of your CV.

Money wise pharmacy would be the most rewarding. As you would get most immediate job satisfaction, someone will always be ill. My good friend works for a pharmacy agency and got £1000 for opening a Boots outlet for a days work!

Most pure mathematicians do their work for the passion they have for their discipline not for the money. I'm guessing you ain't that passionate. For maths postgraduates a 2:1 could get you a job as a risk analyst modeller for an insurance group £19500-22000 anual salary. But postgrad study would put you in a position to be really qualified. So google it see what the average salaries are for the subjects you have an interest in. See which salaries really grab your attention. But if you want respect of academics do pure mathematics.

Reply 26

TheOneWho

Stephen Hawking studied physics. Which used applied maths, not pure.

Both maths and pharmacy will give you transferable skills that you take with you to the workplace. Do the degree you'd find more interesting.

Reply 27

kiki-monkey

I dont quite understand the question.....

So what, you can count. Does that make you awesome? No.

You saved a life to little girl after a 7hours long surgery. Does that make you awesome? Hell yeah.

Reply 28

Sirus

The degrees are respected for different merits by different people. The pharmacy degree should put you in a better financial position, faster than a maths degree. Someone will always be ill. So unless you are very passionate about mathematics do pharmacy.