SLIDE 13 Who do you think you are? Pharmacists’ perceptions of their professional identity
Rebecca Elvey, Karen Hassell and Jason Hall School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2013, 21, pp. 322–33
. . . a lot of the time you’re potentially going up to doctors and saying, you know ‘I disagree with what you’ve prescribed here’, you have to be able to put that across in a friendly way, without sounding like you’re constantly nagging them, otherwise you don’t have a very good relationship with them I suppose a lot of pharmacists are quite pernickety, erm, I think it kind
- f attracts a perfectionist . . . Yeah I
think they can be a bit nit-picky and I can feel that sometimes in meself Meticulous is a word that always comes up quite a lot, anally retentive comes up quite lot as well (laugh) Er, somebody who counts tablets (laugh). Ooh God, what a bad answer! . . . I think they’re all fairly geeky, I think they’re all science-conscious people.’
glorified shop-keeper. We’re just perhaps seen as businessmen, rather than as clinicians
Describe a pharmacist in five words