The Pharmacist: As a pharmacy student, i would
state the pros of being a pharmacist. Pharmacy as a profession is very broad as compared to medcine. First of all, pharmacy is not all limited to clinical and hospital settings as most people think (even though most of us end up there. If you are leaning towards a patient oriented career, then the hospital pharmacy would suit you best. Hospital pharmacy also has sub specialties like onbology, long-term care, pediatric geriatrics, cardiology, ouclar pharmacy and hospital adminstration. However if you are leaning towards busines, community pharm would fufil you. Pharmacist are way better at DRs in giving the correct drug-drug interaction. It only takes you 6 years to finish and can earn a decent salary. It has less stess and working hours ard much more convinient. The Medical Doctor: High salary, you would be regarded highly by the comunitiy. Youd become a peoples person, youd face patients grateful for solving their problems. Greater room for research and personal development.........,..

Bro, is this a debate?

Yeah...kinda.

Mitscheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwww!

Pharmacy students dis character of comparing ursef wit medical students is too much
Even in my school all u guyz do is 2 engage us in useless debate on who is better.
If u appreciate ursef,then u don't need 2 fight for superioty
Leave dat issue and face wat you've set out 2 b.

andyjell01: Pharmacy students dis character of comparing ursef wit medical students is too much
Even in my school all u guyz do is 2 engage us in useless debate on who is better.
If u appreciate ursef,then u don't need 2 fight for superioty
Leave dat issue and face wat you've set out 2 b.

We dont fight each other. The comparism just comes naturally. A medical doctor can suceed so can a pharmacist. A medical doctor can fail so can a pharmacist. The comparisms helps us appericiate our careers the more and thats that.

Not necessary unless You wanted to study medicine and couldnt get through and You are trying to make urself happy. If You chose pharmacy for.the.love of.it, no need to compete.

NB: the society has elevated the medical Dr

agabaI23: Not necessary unless You wanted to study medicine and couldnt get through and You are trying to make urself happy. If You chose pharmacy for.the.love of.it, no need to compete.

NB: the society has elevated the medical Dr

Haha....i've never dreamt of being a medical doctor. In my school, if you apply for medcine and do not get it, you have no admission atall. If you cant get medcine, you cant get pharmacy either. We debate over here for the fun of it. Just said i thought bring it to NL also.

caukerzee: Haha....i've never dreamt of being a medical doctor. In my school, if you apply for medcine and do not get it, you have no admission atall. If you cant get medcine, you cant get pharmacy either. We debate over here for the fun of it. Just said i thought bring it to NL also.

Which school?

agabaI23: Which school?

UI

Hmm...both are good.

Guys....be yourself, be the best!

Let people see you as authority in whatever
career you have chosen, then you earn their
respect not thru 'talkz' like this.

I always feel like injecting Choroform into some course mates system whenever they start this stupid comparism.
If you want Medicine, go for it and stop disturbing us in pharmacy.
Pharmacy isnt a substitute rather, Nursing, Dentistry and Physiotheraphy/Medical Rehabilitation are perfect susbtitutes for medcine! Annoying!
Op, I get you tho, just generalizing.

I love being a pharmacist and thats all. I love drugs, drugs and drugs(an entity upon which our health rely humanly)

Samgreguc: I love being a pharmacist and thats all. I love drugs, drugs and drugs(an entity upon which our health rely humanly)

This thread is Not necessary!!!

agabaI23: This thread is Not necessary!!!

which thread?

Samgreguc:
which thread?

This very thread

agabaI23: This very thread

he was only trying to point out demerits and merits of d two courses owing to the fact that the both profession are good.


BTW, u quoted me and wrote that and am not the Op.

Samgreguc:
he was only trying to point out demerits and merits of d two courses owing to the fact that the both profession are good.


BTW, u quoted me and wrote that and am not the Op.

I quoted you because of your comment!

agabaI23: I quoted you because of your comment!

ha! Wetin do d comment na?

I always feel like injecting Choroform into some course mates system whenever they start this stupid comparism.
If you want Medicine, go for it and stop disturbing us in pharmacy.
Pharmacy isnt a substitute rather, Nursing, Dentistry and Physiotheraphy/Medical Rehabilitation are perfect susbtitutes for medcine! Annoying!
Op, I get you tho, just generalizing.

The fact you're so passionate about profession doesn't mean you should drag others profession to the mud with your flippant comments.you fail to realise that those in these professions are more enlightened than you're. The way you chose to love your profession (pharmacy)is the same way others value theirs.

I always feel like injecting Choroform into some course mates system whenever they start this stupid comparism.
If you want Medicine, go for it and stop disturbing us in pharmacy.
Pharmacy isnt a substitute rather, Nursing, Dentistry and Physiotheraphy/Medical Rehabilitation are perfect susbtitutes for medcine! Annoying!
Op, I get you tho, just generalizing.

The fact you're so passionate about your profession doesn't mean you should drag others profession to the mud with your flippant comments.you fail to realise that those in these professions are more enlightened than you're. The way you chose to love your profession (pharmacy)is the same way others chose to value theirs.

This should do justice to the the topic. Straight out of Google and Wikipedia. Sometimes I wonder why Pharmacist never keep comparing themselves to doctors it's more like part of their training. Lolz. Pharmacy is a noble profession but they should know their boundaries. With all the comparison almost all pharmacist I know would kill for their kids to go to medical school and become a doctor. I have seen Pharmacist who have graduated and come back to study medicine. I'm yet to see a Doctor leaving medicine for pharmacy or cajoling their kids into pharmacy.

I'll start this way... A doctor only kills a patient at a time. A pharmacist kills thousands at a time. Secondly people who shout medicine is more lucrative. How many doctors in Nigeria can match Emzor, Juhel, etc.
Also I've gotten to interact with the faculty officer of medicine UNN when I was looking for admission. He asked me this shaking question. He asked if I wanted to study medicine because I have ambition for it or I heard money is in it so I want to do it. I smiled and told him I wanted the money. He also smiled and told me to that I was in the wrong place that if I want money I should do myself good and go for pharmacy and make my money... He gave me examples... Chris Ngige is a big politician who studied medicine thinking he was gonna make the money but graduated and noticed something different he had to go into politics. I overhead someone saying medical students have a better knowledge in pharmacology. It's very funny but bro keep your facts before you release them. I'm a pharmacy student in UNN... Pharmacy faculty has pharmacology as a department. Pharmacology is a course that came through pharmacy, it's in pharmacy you learn everything about pharmacology just like the name sounds "pharma"
When you talk of safety pharmacists are just enjoying raw cash without stress... When Ebola case came up many doctors died and no pharmacist died lol... When cholera comes up a doctor must surely be recorded dead.
Me now self I don't even have time to perform surgery on someone... I so much like freedom and to be stress free. When you talk of importance
Pharmacists make drugs but from natural herbs "Pharmacognocy can guide you on that and they also make drugs synthetically, they know the drugs working mechanisms that the doctors... What else do you need in health sector. The only thing is that doctor perform Surgerys which wouldn't be successful without the drugs we make... Naturally even a ventenary medical doctor can perform surgerys on human... I don't really see a reason for you to give medical doctors edge over pharmacists... They are so much known because of there selfless devotion I accept that.

Let's not deceive ourselves. A medical doctor anytime any day.

Oogway:
This should do justice to the the topic. Straight out of Google and Wikipedia. Sometimes I wonder why Pharmacist never keep comparing themselves to doctors it's more like part of their training. Lolz. Pharmacy is a noble profession but they should know their boundaries. With all the comparison almost all pharmacist I know would kill for their kids to go to medical school and become a doctor. I have seen Pharmacist who have graduated and come back to study medicine. I'm yet to see a Doctor leaving medicine for pharmacy or cajoling their kids into pharmacy.

Do you know why Pharmacists keep comparing their profession to Doctors? It’s because society downplayed their importance, the same reason black people in America & all over the world keep comparing themselves to White people. It’s simple psychology. By the way, I worked in a US hospital business department for 4 years (while I was prepping for med school). In my time there, I realized that Business is the king of all careers. Doctors and other hospital staff can lose their jobs anytime, but the owners of the hospitals will remain.
And also do not come to a conclusion by what you see on Wikipedia, Doctors pay is by specialty. Also Pharmacists earn less in the US but more in Nigeria. Whereas Doctors earn more in the US and “ridiculously” less in Nigeria, plus they are a shadow of the profession because they don’t have access to decent medical equipments.
I recently quit my medical school journey (while I was still doing my prerequisites, don’t come at me I did not fail o, God is my witness I had a 3.9 GPA. People who graduated from good Universities in Nigeria know US colleges na beans) and decided to be a full time business woman. I’m not alone, even Doctors in the US are diving into business too.
If you have a passion to help people go for Medicine, if not it can be frustrating as the thrill dies pretty quickly.
I have 3 cousins who are Doctors in Nigeria, one is a politician today, the remaining two are complaining daily, I won’t advice anybody to read Medicine in Nigeria except they plan to relocate to the US after graduation.

Forgive my grammatical errors, I know Nigerians expect perfection always. �