Inter-multidisciplinary professional relationship amidst health workers is the one of the key to improving patient health outcome.

However, time & time have shown that other health practitioners want to do their own job & still do that of the pharmacist as well.

But why? https://twitter.com/AmeboPharmacist/status/1352737698163937283
For this same reason, the physicians think role of the pharmacist is overhyped thus leaving dispensing of medications in their private clinic to one trainer who will just write take this drug "2x2" without effectively communicating it to the patient & the patient end up taking..
..4 tabs at a goal.

It's this same pharmacist just sit down & give drugs & collect big money mentality that will make the LAB Scientist or Technicians after conducting Lab investigations will still prescribe drugs for the patient because the drug sensitivity is showing..
..Levo 3+, Cipro 3+, Gent 3+, Augmentin 2+, strep 2+

P.falciparium ++
Widal > 1/80 significant

Just with this 👆🏾 knowledge they fell they are now drug expects without knowing the many observations a Pharmacist considers before giving his final judgement on the drug type to...
..use after consideration of drug-drug, drug-food, drug-disease interactions, compliance rate and the financial burden on the patients

The worst is the lab guys do this prescription in there offices without given the duration of the meds, leaving it in the hands of the Pharms..
to give duration.

I encountered 3 different clients yesterday, 2 of them from the same Lab, and the other from a different lab.

Hey! Uncle did different investigations: MP, Widal, H.pylori, FOB, Seminal analysis

Lab man after result, gave prescriptions for all these conditions
Me trying to tell Oga that I need to review this prescription that I'm not satisfied with the use of Adam's desire for a sperm count of 2x10^6cells/mL & other stuffs, Oga said the doctor in the lab said that is good for him. Oga's mind is made up bcos the lab man said so...
The other person has already been given one of these multi-level marketing drugs costing him some amount of money & a sanitary pad for his wife saying is not just ordinary pad... and he was sent to the pharmacy to get the injections.
I was just weak, when did we bcom like this🤷
The last lady, came with a result for E.coli & moderate growth of S.aureus..

They have prescribed & given aunty Inj Streptomycin & Rifampicin for that...and one stem cell supplements.

Aunty came back complaining of discharge weeks later...

Me, if I have given you treatment..
There would have been something to prevent antibiotics overload that can result in fungal overgrowth.

You said is the guy in white at the lab that gave that treatment, Aunty said yes.

The long & short of it is, every health care provider is seeing the Pharmacy profession...
..as the oil industry of health practice. Hey! Sorry to shock you, the Pharmacist of today, has moved pass that level of product orientation practice to clinical patient practice where we see the drug as a tool that needs critical evaluation after consideration of all possibly..
therapeutic & lethal effects before making a decision for the safety of our patients.

Let's all do well to respect our boundaries as health workers and not encroach into the field of others at the detriment of the patient.

Peace, Love and Light ✌🏾

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