Social Science and Pharmacy

Abstract

In recent years the role of the pharmacist has undergone significant changes. As the number of available proprietary medicines has increased, the day-to-day activities of pharmacists have as a consequence altered so that for he, and increasingly she, the actual process of compounding and formulating medicines has become less demanding on their time than in the past. A corollary of this development has been the opportunity for pharmacists to promote themselves as primary health care professionals, from whom medical advice may be sought, prior to, in addition to, or instead of visiting a medical practitioner.