BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie

management, where they optimize and monitor drug therapy or interpret
medical laboratory results – in collaboration with physicians and/or other
health professionals. Advances into prescribing medication and in
providing public health advices and services are occurring in Britain as
well as the United States and Canada. Pharmacists have many areas of
expertise and are a critical source of medical knowledge in clinics,
hospitals, medical laboratory and community pharmacies throughout the
world. Pharmacists also hold positions in the pharmaceutical industry as
well as in pharmaceutical education and research and development
institutions.
In much of the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth
pharmacists are customarily sometimes referred to as chemist (or
dispensing chemists), a usage which can, especially without a context
relating to the sale or supply of medicines, cause confusion with scientists
in the field of chemistry. This term is a historical one, since some
pharmacists passed an examination in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (PhC) set
by the then Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1852 and these
were known as "Pharmaceutical Chemists". This title is protected by the
Medicines Act 1968 section 78.
Notion of Patient
The word patient originally meant 'one who suffers'. This English
noun comes from the Latin word patiens, the present participle of the
deponent verb, patior, meaning 'I am suffering,' and akin to the Greek verb
πάσχειν (= paskhein, to suffer) and its cognate noun πάθος (= pathos).
A patient is any person who receives medical attention, care, or
treatment. The person is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment
by a physician or other health care professional, although one who is
visiting a physician for a routine check-up may also be viewed as a patient.
Nowadays we can mentioned several types of patients.
An outpatient is a patient who is not hospitalized overnight but
who visits a hospital, clinic, or associated facility for diagnosis or
treatment. Treatment provided in this fashion is called ambulatory care.
Outpatient can be met even in surgery. Outpatient surgery eliminates
inpatient hospital admission, reduces the amount of medication prescribed,
and uses a doctor's time more efficiently. More procedures are now being
performed in a surgeon's office, termed office-based surgery, rather than in
an operating room. Outpatient surgery is suited best for healthy people
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