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Wow, you are both rude and uninformed. Coupled with general arrogance and bitterness about the pharmacy profession, it is quite something to read. Maybe the next time you need pharmacy services, you can just get the nearest uneducated person to answer your questions at all hours of the day and night, fill your prescriptions, hassle with your insurance carrier, prepare your sterile IV's, monitor your labs, prepare your radioactive pharmaceuticals, attend your CPR, check your drug interactions, recommend therapy to your doctor, immunize you, monitor your health problems, advise you on OTC products, make sure your child is dosed properly and make sure your elderly mother in the nursing home isn't chemically restrained into a stupor. Oh, and make sure that random person doesn't mind doing it at 3am and on Christmas Day. And make that quick please.
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You're giving me examples of responsibilities of different pharmacy fields. No pharmacist does all that. Why do nuclear pharmacist even need a Pharm.D? The Pharm.D is waaaay too broad.
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Oh, and please don't consider suing us if we make a mistake, because we don't have to be all that smart.
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When does a pharmacist ever get sued? Their insurance is much cheaper than a doctor's.
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If pharmacy is so lucrative and easy, why don't YOU do it? Seriously, I don't understand your venomous attitude.
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Maybe because I wasn't fortunate enough to have the money to even pursue it. I was also held back in preschool so I don't want to do 8+ years of schooling in California. I'm at the 80 percentile I guess because I can get a 1200 SAT. The hard part is getting in. It's a cake walk to get the Pharm.D.
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Right, but you're forgetting that pharmacists have fewer options to "move up" and earn more past the base salary. Base salary is not necessarily an accurate indicator of future potential.
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An engineer or a software engineer have little room to move up too. The highest position most will get is senior engineer. They make roughly the same as a pharmacist. In California, an engineering degree takes 5 years.
My point is obviously pharmacists are making more than what they should because it's one of the few degrees where the colleges purposely create a shortage. 99.9999% of people who apply get turned away and it makes no sense to me. I'm not sure, but I think Europe values pharmacists much less than the U.S. I'd have to look it up again.