Choosing a Trusted Pharmacist for Better Health
Canadians should select a trusted pharmacist and build a partnership for good health. Pharmacists provide guidance on choosing taking and storing medications, offer counseling beyond dispensing, and help ensure effective use of drugs and health products.
Canadian Pharmacists Through Four Centuries of Service
Canada marks four centuries of pharmacy with Sébert as the first settler apothecary and today over 29 500 licensed pharmacists serve across 7 785 communities in 300 hospitals. Pharmacists dispense drugs, counsel on use, manage chronic diseases, and increasingly prescript medications and support smoking cessation, proving the most accessible trusted health professionals in communities.
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Pharmacist Guidance on Medication Use and Safety
Advice on using a single pharmacy for all records to monitor drug interactions and allergies. Pharmacists maintain medication profiles, discuss side effects, dietary or activity restrictions, missed doses, and a broad range of safety tips with patients.
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