Monday, November 30, 2009

Underutilized Role of Pharmacists

The LA Times has an article describing the important, if underutilized, role that pharmacists can and should play in healthcare.

Physicians wholeheartedly agree about the importance of the pharmacist's role. "Pharmacists know more about medications than anybody else in the healthcare system," Gregerson says. "That's what they went to school for. . . . They're like walking encyclopedias."