The Practical Pharmacist

Honeybee: The flying pharmacist

Honeybee, a small -although powerful- creature moves from one place to another to make an elixir, which cures different diseases. To make one kilogram of honey the small creature has to carry 150000 pieces of pollen and suck the sap of ten million flowers. Both honey and the honeybee poison have been used in treating diseases for thousands of years. The product made by such tiny creatures has b...

Honeybee: The flying pharmacist

Honeybee, a small -although powerful- creature moves from one place to another to make an elixir, which cures different diseases. To make one kilogram of honey the small creature has to carry 150000 pieces of pollen and suck the sap of ten million flowers. Both honey and the honeybee poison have been used in treating diseases for thousands of years. The product made by such tiny creatures has b...

Practical education for pharmacist students: a hospital perspective.

JCPH – Vol. 62, n 1 – janvier–février 2009 88 teaching units for students to take advantage of peer mentoring; the creation of a new pyramidal educational model whereby students in higher years help in the teaching and growth of those behind them; an increase in the duration of student rotations so that preceptor teaching is offset by future student benefits as the student becomes more comforta...

Free the pharmacist!

The complexity and diversity of drug therapy for medical conditions continue to expand, resulting in a need for increased sophistication on the part of all care providers. If pharmacists are to be relevant in contemporary practice, they must possess the knowledge and skills to identify and resolve a great variety of drug-related problems. The requirement for pharmacists to have a range of knowl...

The Physician and the Pharmacist