Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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.

Nigerian Writer

Walter Cronkite

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.

American Journalist

Kamaru Usman

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!

Nigerian Athlete

John Harsanyi

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.

Hungarian Economist

Walter Matthau

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.

American Actor

Dick Durbin

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.

American Politician

Claude Chabrol

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.

French Director

Tunde Adebimpe

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.

American Musician

Caroline Mulroney

I spoke at a number of conventions, like for pharmacists and cosmetologists, so I've done a lot of public speaking in my life.

Canadian Public Servant

George Ryan

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

Pharmacists often provide medication instructions and can answer drug-related questions.

Professional Role

Pharmacists work in various settings, most commonly in pharmacies inside stores or hospitals.

Healthcare Setting

Remember that a pharmacist isn't the same as a doctor; they can't diagnose illnesses.

Not a Doctor

Ask a pharmacist when you need guidance on over-the-counter remedies or supplements.

Consultation Offered

Pharmacists sometimes offer advice on general wellness and disease prevention.

Health Tips

Pharmacists also specialize in non-prescription drug advice, not just prescription drugs.

Non-Prescription Focus

 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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 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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 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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 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 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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 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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 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.

How does your body...

 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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 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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 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.