Pharmacists are health professionals who practice the science of pharmacy. In their traditional role, pharmacists typically take a request for medicines from a prescribing health care provider in the form of a medical prescription, evaluate the appropriateness of the prescription, dispense the medication to the patient and counsel them on the proper use and adverse effects of that medication. In this role pharmacists act as a learned intermediary between physicians and patients and thus ensure the safe and effective use of medications.
Being a Medical Assistant, gives you the great responsibility of seeing people when they are sometimes in their most vulnerable state, a parent with a sick child, a nervous couple having their first baby, a natural disaster that brings in a rush of people seeking medical attention.