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It seems like there needs to be a shorter/quicker program for pharmacists. Fully trained pharmacists do have a lot of education invested in them, so of course t
by civilian 9y ago
It seems like there needs to be a shorter/quicker program for pharmacists. Fully trained pharmacists do have a lot of education invested in them, so of course they can jump the island go somewhere else.
I feel like a small certification, like a 3 months of night classes, could help a lot of problems with prescription mistakes. I mean, this is the kind of simple drug knowledge that we all called our moms about when were in college. "When should I take cough syrup..." "Why can't I take antibiotics for a cold?"
- phonon 9y agoIf they did that, they wouldn't be selling expired and inappropriate medication. So why would they? The sellers might also be illiterate...they are selling by color/shape.
- civilian 9y agoWhat? They could still sell medication, it would just be the appropriate medication! As for expired--- expired medication are still good. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/expired-medications-drugs-potency-effective_n_1949481.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/expired-medications... https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB954201508530067326 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB954201508530067326 You are right that illiteracy might be a big factor though. "Haiti's literacy rate of about 61%..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Haiti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Haiti
- phonon 9y agoTo reply un-cynically now--you're right. There's always a way to improve things. A MD/PhD friend of mine is working on a grant to develop a phone app for third world medical treatment that will give simplified explanations of what drugs should be prescribed for what conditions/symptoms, with pictures. Feel like volunteering? :-)
- Eridrus 9y agoI feel like a lot of this "basic" knowledge is already encoded in machine readable form and there should just be an app they can talk to that tells them what they should take.