Way back in the dark ages, (circa 1940s) pharmacy
graduates had to take grueling state board exams to get a license to practice
what Professor Cyrus Cox at Rutgers College of Pharmacy called “the ancient and
noble art of the apothecary”. Gradually, that hard won training to qualify as
such a pharmacist has become worthless; pharmacist duties gradually have been
taken over by a new class of health care workers, the “certified licensed
technician.” How lovely.
When I was trained as a pharmacist, “compounding”
(now a suspect activity) is what we did, and we didn’t kill anyone with
questionable complex compounds often with dangerous side effects. Big pharma had
not yet co-opted the term “pharmacy,” to use as a cover to promote and sell
pharmaceutical industry nostrums that are the fourth leading cause of death in
this country.
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