[e-drug] Drugs or Medicines? (4)

["Emeje Martins" <martinsemeje@yahoo.com>]

E-DRUG: Drugs or Medicines? (4)
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Dear e-druggers,
I definately share the submission of Prof. Michael Montagne on this issue. But let me inform Prof and probably others who share his opinion on the seeming reluctance of pharmacists to assume their roles properly, that, the pharmacist from his days in the  school of pharmacy has been trained rightly or wrongly to be unassuming.

He therefore graduates only to discover that in the contemporary world, (especially among the health care providers) one must be assertive in order to make a headway. Stories of the pharmacist appears to be universal and only very few pharmacists maybe lucky to have passed through teachers such as Prof. Michael Montagne and others in different parts of the world,who instils confidence in the pharmacy students, hence able to assume their responsibilities
when they graduate.

For me, whatever you like, call it; drug,medicine, herb, concotion, narcotic, substance, agent,
traditional medicine, social drinks, etc- in so far as you  mearnt an agent that will alter the physiology and/or biochemistry of a living system, be it MAN or ANIMAL, the pharmacist is the most educated and unarquably the most informed.herefore,the pharmacist must be responsible for their use or otherwise. 

Martins Emeje,Rph,Mpharm.
Research fellow
Nat. Inst. for Pharm. Res. and Devt.
Abuja,
Nigeria.
Emeje Martins <martinsemeje@yahoo.com>