Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 9:17pm.
Take it one sentence at a time. What don't you understand in each sentence?
Pharmacists are health care professionals who use their expertise in medicine to help people understand what are the medications they are taking, how they will help, and how they will react.
They also give out information and counsel patients on over-the- counter (OTC) drugs.
Pharmacists also participate in disease-state management, where they optimize and monitor the drug therapy or interpret medical laboratory results – in collaboration with physicians and/or other health professionals.
Pharmacists have many areas of expertise and are a critical source of medical knowledge in clinics, hospitals, medical laboratories and community pharmacies throughout the world.
I don't understand the last two paragraphs. What is disease state management? optimize? collaboration?
http://www.answers.com/optimize
http://www.answers.com/collaboration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacist
Pharmacists also participate in disease-state management, where they optimize and monitor the drug therapy or interpret medical laboratory results – in collaboration with physicians and/or other health professionals.
Disease-state management means to manage a disease. This includes the medications used to treat the disease and how these different meds react with each other.
Related Questions
Health - Which one of the following activities is considered part of health care...
HCA - Are health care professionals who provide mental health care integrated ...
health care - Can mental illness be cured? o Has the concept of ...
HCA 210 Introduction to Health Care - What is the definition of mental illness? ...
HCA 210 Introduction to Health Care - What is the definition of mental illness? ...
Heath Care Introduction - # What is the definition of mental illness? Can mental...
introduction to health care - What do you see as the purpose of health insurance...
health - As a health care administrator, how important is having the ability to...
Health Care Administration - A Health Care Administrator has been hired by an, ...
HCA331 - Given all of the information that you have learned about health care ...
For Further Reading
