As healthcare across the globe continues to adapt based on patient’s needs, pharmacists are increasingly playing a more vital role in health care delivery. These roles span across the pharmaceutical industry, community dispensing positions, compounding experts, and, finally, as a clinical pharmacist. In several parts of the world the role of “clinical pharmacist” is a novel one. In Southeast Asian…
US has a serious problem of drug addiction with over 52,000 lives lost in 2015 alone. During our elective advanced pharmacy practice rotation in India, we were surprised to find that with a much larger population and with limited enforcement of prescription control, opioid deaths are relatively rare. In this article we postulate some of…
Tuberculosis has continued to evade eradication and inflict humanity for the better part of the human race’s existence. These thoughts from a pharmacist experiencing tuberculosis in parts of the developing world, Cambodia and India, highlight just a few of the barriers that health care professionals need to overcome in resource limited settings. These include addressing…