BiggyB242:


So, that is possible.

Yes.

bizzibodi:
This na doctor by hook,an extra one yr suppose gives master degree not D.pharm.
No matter how long a lizard stays inside river it can never be a croc.
Most of them will end up setting up drug shops or be dispensers in government hospitals,we cannot make drugs in nigeria,but to be importing drugs from China,India & vietnam...all we know is carrying big big certificates
Just thinking aloud.

You're still analog in your thinking. Pharm.D has since replaced B.Pharm in most countries of the world and that is why our B.Pharm graduates cannot practice in developed countries except after undergoing a conversion program.

Having said the above, be informed that Pharm.D is a professional doctorate degree and not a substitute for a PhD. Also, the aim of awarding the degree is not to displace or usurp the duties of medical doctors like some insecure Nigerian medical doctors think. The aim is to train pharmacists who are grounded in not only drug making and dispensing but who understand disease conditions and how drugs interact with diseases, food, other drugs etc. This is to enable them properly counsel and monitors patients when they're being treated with drugs. The benefits of having such pharmacists are innumerable and serve not only the patients but the healthcare system and government as a whole.

Jman06:
You're still analog in your thinking. Pharm.D has since replaced B.Pharm in most countries of the world and that is why our B.Pharm graduates cannot practice in developed countries except after undergoing a conversion program.

Having said the above, be informed that Pharm.D is a professional doctorate degree and not a substitute for a PhD. Also, the aim of awarding the degree is not to displace or usurp the duties of medical doctors like some insecure Nigerian medical doctors think. The aim is to train pharmacists who are grounded in not only drug making and dispensing but who understand disease conditions and how drugs interact with diseases, food, other drugs etc. This is to enable them properly counsel and monitors patients when they're being treated with drugs. The benefits of having such pharmacists are innumerable and serve not only the patients but the healthcare system and government as a whole.

Doctorate for 1 additional year only?most of those drugs,diseases,food & other drugs interactions,side effects & drugs info are been clearly spelt out in drugs leaflets since time immemorial I am sure it is not a new course.

bizzibodi:

Doctorate for 1 additional year only?most of those drugs,diseases,food & other drugs interactions,side effects & drugs info are been spelt out in drugs leaflets since time immemorial I am sure it is not a new course.

It is not done in one year alone like you thought. What obtains is that the Bpharm curriculum is expanded and made more robust hence stretching into the sixth year. There's 2years of clinical rotation which starts from the penultimate year until graduation and during this period, students are posted to different hospitals for training.

Not all information are on drugs' leaflets. Besides, not every patient understands the terms used in writing those leaflets. Also, the last thing on a sick patient's mind would be reading the leaflets of his/her drugs. It's just like expecting patients to make their own diagnosis relying on information on google.

Treatments with drugs sometimes present some complications to the patient's condition and it takes a well trained pharmacist to detect those drug-related problems while the attention of the physician is called to such problems in a professional manner for possible adjustments.

MrEgghead:
Don't bring this up...Don't ever mention a pharmacist in category of Dentists, surgeons, pathologists, ENT and Vets...All those you mentioned have the qualification to consult, diagnose and treat because they a common designation "MBBS or BDS"....
Pharm.D is only a professional doctorate just like Ph.D is a research doctorate.
In hospital setting, they can not be called doctors but in other organisations they can.

Whether you like it or not, they are Doctors, the NMA and MDCN would always be sad knowing there is Pharm.D.

Pharm.D isn't an academic doctorate, i.e PhD as you said. It is just like MBBS, Vet. Med and optometry. They can be called Doctors anywhere anytime and as time goes one, pharmacist would gain the right to consult.

MrEgghead:
The job of a pharmacist is not to consult, diagnose and treat but they do that in disguise.

These days they even do that openly without qualms.
As a dentist you can interpret the work of a pathologist for diagnosis and treaatment...btwn a pathologist is a specialist.

A pharmcist prescribes drug at it's right dose. just like you said, a dentist interpret the work of a pathologist for diagnosis and treatment, the pharmacist interprete the prescription of a consultant, giving right dose to the patient as medication. They are all doctors doing different things. From pathologist to dentist to consultants to surgeons to pharmacist. They all doctors in different areas of specialization

arinzos:

I don't think so. My sis got Her own Online including the one from the School.

What year is that? I was talking about 2008.
She got the transcript from her school first, isn't it? The she can get the original from WAEC office

Snowale:
What year is that? I was talking about 2008.
She got the transcript from her school first, isn't it? The she can get the original from WAEC office

That same 2008

Jman06:
It is not done in one year alone like you thought. What obtains is that the Bpharm curriculum is expanded and made more robust hence stretching into the sixth year. There's 2years of clinical rotation which starts from the penultimate year until graduation and during this period, students are posted to different hospitals for training.

Not all information are on drugs' leaflets. Besides, not every patient understands the terms used in writing those leaflets. Also, the last thing on a sick patient's mind would be reading the leaflets of his/her drugs. It's just like expecting patients to make their own diagnosis relying on information on google.

Treatments with drugs sometimes present some complications to the patient's condition and it takes a well trained pharmacist to detect those drug-related problems while the attention of the physician is called to such problems in a professional manner for possible adjustments.

I rest my case

Snowale:
A pharmcist prescribes drug at it's right dose. just like you said, a dentist interpret the work of a pathologist for diagnosis and treatment, the pharmacist interprete the prescription of a consultant, giving right dose to the patient as medication. They are all doctors doing different things. From pathologist to dentist to consultants to surgeons to pharmacist. They all doctors in different areas of specialization

Why do you keep contradicting yourself? you said Pharmacist prescribes and yet you still claim they interprete doctors prescriptions....That's you people keep deceiving the gullible people that you're Doctors....you're a pharmacist not a Doctor...Just look at what a pharmacist is typing.
In sane climes, you would be arrested before completing such statements...Your job as a pharmacist is to to review doctors prescriptions and dispense such medications... It's not even your right to change the prescription...Don't be a quack bro....If you want to consult, diagnose and treat, go get a MBBS degree.. There's a reason they are medical Doctors and not pharmacists or Lab s scientists.

MrEgghead:
Why do you keep contradicting yourself? you said Pharmacist prescribes and yet you still claim they interprete doctors prescriptions....That's you people keep deceiving the gullible people that you're Doctors....you're a pharmacist not a Doctor...Just look at what a pharmacist is typing.
In sane climes, you would be arrested before completing such statements...Your job as a pharmacist is to to review doctors prescriptions and dispense such medications... It's not even your right to change the prescription...Don't be a quack bro....If you want to consult, diagnose and treat, go get a MBBS degree.. There's a reason they are medical Doctors and not pharmacists or Lab s scientists.

U still reason and type like a JAMBite that u are,Just STFU if u don't know there are different types of doctors. MD,DVM,OD,PHD,PharmD and any of them can bear it anywhere because they earn it

arinzos:

That same 2008

Try confirming, I got mine some years after, but as transcript form my secondary school. Ask if it was WAEC not GCE and ask how she got it

Period007:

U still reason and type like a JAMBite that u are,Just STFU if u don't know there are different types of doctors. MD,DVM,OD,PHD,PharmD and any of them can bear it anywhere because they earn it

Ph.D is a research doctorate and we all know the holders will not be parading themselves as "doctors who treat" but reverse is the case for our brothers in the health sector..And that's why NMA is fighting to reduce quackery, because the gullible patients will always have the "real doctors"as their last resorts when things might have gone bad and they will blamed for the end result...

I'm not hating or trying to suppress anybody as no profession is superior to another in the health sector but we just need to know our job descriptions and avoid deceiving people about qualifications we don't have.. I've never seen a doctor claiming to be a pharmacist...
Our boundaries must be maintained and no confusion.

MrEgghead:
Ph.D is a research doctorate and we all know the holders will not be parading themselves as "doctors who treat" but reverse is the case for our brothers in the health sector..And that's why NMA is fighting to reduce quackery, because the gullible patients will always have the "real doctors"as their last resorts when things might have gone bad and they will blamed for the end result...

I'm not hating or trying to suppress anybody as no profession is superior to another in the health sector but we just need to know our job descriptions and avoid deceiving people about qualifications we don't have.. I've never seen a doctor claiming to be a pharmacist...
Our boundaries must be maintained and no confusion.

So have u seen a Pharmacist calling himself a medical doctor
See,the real medical doctors have accepted the PharmD so ur opinion doesn't matter

Snowale:
Whether you like it or not, they are Doctors, the NMA and MDCN would always be sad knowing there is Pharm.D.

Pharm.D isn't an academic doctorate, i.e PhD as you said. It is just like MBBS, Vet. Med and optometry. They can be called Doctors anywhere anytime and as time goes one, pharmacist would gain the right to consult.

Consult on what exactly? With your deficient knowledge of Paediatrics, obs and gyna, Medicine, surgery and more importantly PATHOLOGY.. Brother it can never happen, as that's not your job's designation...you think it's just about drugs...you can only know side effects, contra and dosage but never how a drug can alleviate or worsen a pathology...Be fulfilled with your profession already.

Period007:

So have u seen a Pharmacist calling himself a medical doctor
See,the real medical doctors have accepted the PharmD so ur opinion doesn't matter

I know a lot of them..In their pharmacy stores, they create consulting rooms and even beds examining people..

MrEgghead:
Why do you keep contradicting yourself? you said Pharmacist prescribes and yet you still claim they interprete doctors prescriptions....That's you people keep deceiving the gullible people that you're Doctors....you're a pharmacist not a Doctor...Just look at what a pharmacist is typing.
In sane climes, you would be arrested before completing such statements...Your job as a pharmacist is to to review doctors prescriptions and dispense such medications... It's not even your right to change the prescription...Don't be a quack bro....If you want to consult, diagnose and treat, go get a MBBS degree.. There's a reason they are medical Doctors and not pharmacists or Lab s scientists.

LOL, the pain is running through your vain, isn't it? I notice the NMA and MDCN are doing all they could to make sure they lead in everything, they thought they are meant to lead and they are unique. If they have the power they would have chased other health workers out of the hospital, so they can comfortably do the work themselves. The way radiologist prevents radiographers from doing CT-scan and others less hazardous works and leave them to work on radiation jobs, and the way they prevents Doctors of optometrist from doing eye surgery and also made sure they are placed under conhess with a starting salary below that of a house officer, how they prevent nurses from doing surgeries and how they try to prevent scientist from carrying out test in infectious laboratories, like the few COVID19 laboratories around. Thinking they can do it all. Thinking they know everything, they were thought everything in just six years. LOL
Pharmacist reads consultant's prescriptions, true. Pharmacist can cancel consultant's prescriptions and give the right drug or dose to the patient. It's very legal.
What's the big deal about consulting, diagnosing and treating patients. Nurses are treating, they are also doing surgeries, Scientists diagnose, they also do histopathological analysis.
Pharmacy being the most lucrative, a pharmacist might decide to leave the hospital, and get a better paying job in a pharmaceutical industry, get more than what any CMD could get.

Many consultants even wish to produce build pharmaceutical industry but they can't, some even try dispensing/selling drugs, they end up being arrested.
Their work is to write on paper and send to another doctor (pharmacist) for REVIEW, if the dose and prescription is right, the pharmacist will dispense, if it's wrong then he will either correct it and dispense the right drug in the correct dosage or he send the patient back to the other doctor (consultant) for correction.

Here I am talking about Hospital pharmacy for in-patients.

MrEgghead:
Consult on what exactly? With your deficient knowledge of Paediatrics, obs and gyna, Medicine, surgery and more importantly PATHOLOGY.. Brother it can never happen, as that's not your job's designation...you think it's just about drugs...you can only know side effects, contra and dosage but never how a drug can alleviate or worsen a pathology...Be fulfilled with your profession already.

You think after just 6 years in school, you know everything in all health fields and you can step into any of those fields.and come out successfully, pharmacy is too broad to be thinking about being a consultant, what's the big deal about being a consultant. When there are even better things a licensed pharmacist would do, that most consultants wished to do, I know doctors that come back for pharmacy and I know consultant that send their children to study pharmacy instead of M.bla bla bla.

I hope you won't talk about which is more lucrative, or which is paying more.
An average Doctor of Pharmacy gets more than an average of Doctor of medicine. And in terms of lucrativeness, LOL, we all know about the residency training, and how most of them later run abroad

Snowale:
LOL, the pain is running through your vain, isn't it? I notice the NMA and MDCN are doing all they could to make sure they lead in everything, they thought they are meant to lead and they are unique. If they have the power they would have chased other health workers out of the hospital, so they can comfortably do the work themselves. The way radiologist prevents radiographers from doing CT-scan and others less hazardous works and leave them to work on radiation jobs, and the way they prevents Doctors of optometrist from doing eye surgery and also made sure they are placed under conhess with a starting salary below that of a house officer, how they prevent nurses from doing surgeries and how they try to prevent scientist from carrying out test in infectious laboratories, like the few COVID19 laboratories around. Thinking they can do it all. Thinking they know everything, they were thought everything in just six years. LOL
Pharmacist reads consultant's prescriptions, true. Pharmacist can cancel consultant's prescriptions and give the right drug or dose to the patient. It's very legal.
What's the big deal about consulting, diagnosing and treating patients. Nurses are treating, they are also doing surgeries, Scientists diagnose, they also do histopathological analysis.
Pharmacy being the most lucrative, a pharmacist might decide to leave the hospital, and get a better paying job in a pharmaceutical industry, get more than what any CMD could get.

Many consultants even wish to produce build pharmaceutical industry but they can't, some even try dispensing/selling drugs, they end up being arrested.
Their work is to write on paper and send to another doctor (pharmacist) for REVIEW, if the dose and prescription is right, the pharmacist will dispense, if it's wrong then he will either correct it and dispense the right drug in the correct dosage or he send the patient back to the other doctor (consultant) for correction.

Here I am talking about Hospital pharmacy for in-patients.

In Nigeria, everything goes...
In sane climes, you dare not change a doctor's prescription, you'll be jailed if found guilty...
Do you know about the diagnosis that you want to change the prescription? That's why he's a medical doc. he considers many factors before prescribing and that doesn't mean he's infallible.
A fulfilled pharmacist will quizz the doctor on why he's prescribing such drug and not change it.
Guy, the distance between a medic and a pharmacist is TOO far..Don't refer to a pharmacist as another doctor, he's not and he should be proud as a pharmacist.

Snowale:
You think after just 6 years in school, you know everything in all health fields and you can step into any of those fields.and come out successfully, pharmacy is too broad to be thinking about being a consultant, what's the big deal about being a consultant. When there are even better things a licensed pharmacist would do, that most consultants wished to do, I know doctors that come back for pharmacy and I know consultant that send their children to study pharmacy instead of M.bla bla bla.

I hope you won't talk about which is more lucrative, or which is paying more.
An average Doctor in Pharmacy gets more than an average of Doctor in medicine. And in terms he of lucrativeness, LOL, we all know about the residency training, and how most of them later run abroad

I don't care who earns more, if you like earn One BILLION in a day, I don't care.
what I care about is you claiming to be who you're not and deceiving people and when it comes to your family members who are critically ill, you'll know the right person to take them..

In every ONE doctor that goes back to study pharmacy, there are 20 pharmacists that go back to study Medicine...And that "one doctor" I've never heard of or seen...But we know how you envy doctors so much...
Be satisfied with your pharmacy profession and it's job designations.
If you so much desire to treat, go get a MBBS degree and avoid all these stress "wanabees" pass through.

MrEgghead:
In Nigeria, everything goes...
In sane climes, you dare not change a doctor's prescription, you'll be jailed if found guilty...
Do you know about the diagnosis that you want to change the prescription? That's why he's a medical doc. he considers many factors before prescribing and that doesn't mean he's infallible.
A fulfilled pharmacist will quizz the doctor on why he's prescribing such drug and not change it.
Guy, the distance between a medic and a pharmacist is TOO far..Don't refer to a pharmacist as another doctor, he's not and he should be proud as a pharmacist.

what distance are you referring to!!! They both spend 6 years in school, 1 year internship and 1 year service. What are you talking about? What qualifies an MBBS graduate to be called a given Doctors is the extra workload. A pharmacist also face similar stress and struggle in school.

Even abroad, a pharmacist can change the dosage and prescription. He reviews what the consultant demands. If a consultants already knows everything about a drug, why does he still needs to write to a pharmacist, why not get it himself, Because a pharmacist knows almost everything about drug, and he needs a pharmacist to reveiw his prescription if it's correct or wrong. You can't compare someone that studied pharmacology as a borrowed course in just one year, with someone that did it almost throughout his 6 years in school.

If a pharmacist can't be referred to as a doctor, the same should go with dentist, Vetenarians, pathologist, surgeons etc.

MrEgghead:
I don't care who earns more, if you like earn One BILLION in a day, I don't care.
what I care about is you claiming to be who you're not and deceiving people and when it comes to your family members who are critically ill, you'll know the right person to take them..

In every ONE doctor that goes back to study pharmacy, there are 20 pharmacists that go back to study Medicine...And that "one doctor" I've never heard of or seen...But we know how you envy doctors so much...
Be satisfied with your pharmacy profession and it's job designations.
If you so much desire to treat, go get a MBBS degree and avoid all these stress "wanabees" pass through.

Nurses are doing almost all the treatment, what's the big deal in treating. And consulting, what's so special about it. Pharmacist are always proud of themselves, and never regret their action of studying the course. Unlike, Human medicine, we see them trying all possible to get into the residency program, just few lucky ones with connection + bribery get it, most end up in private hospitals with pay mostly less than 120k. They end up writing letters to CMDs and looking for connection to work as a lecturer in school. I'm glad schools now say you must have your PDGE/Msc before you can be a lecturer. We have many of them writing exams to travel abroad, after 40years they come back home to start a small business, because No pension.

A pharmacist would always be proud of his course.
And they are Doctors just like any other health workers who spent 6 years in school with huge workload

Snowale:
what distance are you referring to!!! They both spend 6 years in school, 1 year internship and 1 year service. What are you talking about? What qualifies an MBBS graduate to be called a given Doctors is the extra workload. A pharmacist also face similar stress and struggle in school.

Even abroad, a pharmacist can change the dosage and prescription. He reviews what the consultant demands. If a consultants already knows everything about a drug, why does he still needs to write to a pharmacist, why not get it himself, Because a pharmacist knows almost everything about drug, and he needs a pharmacist to reveiw his prescription if it's correct or wrong. You can't compare someone that studied pharmacology as a borrowed course in just one year, with someone that did it almost throughout his 6 years in school.

If a pharmacist can't be referred to as a doctor, the same should go with dentist, Vetenarians, pathologist, surgeons etc.

Your job is to vet and dispense and your knowledge of drugs is not enough to usurp the role of a physician...What do you know about the pathophysiology of disease with your zero knowledge of MORBID Anatomy?
what differentiates a medic from a pharmacist are: Good knowledge of Pathology, Medicine, surgery, psychiatry, o an G as they make you a sound doctor. Pharmacology is the only relevant course to Medical students from pharmacy as other parts are irrelevant in clinical practice...
The same pharmacology is applied to all the specialties of medicine and you're not aware of that..So where does your pharmacology take you to!
I respect my case!

MrEgghead:
Your job is to vet and dispense and your knowledge of drugs is not enough to usurp the role of a physician...What do you know about the pathophysiology of disease with your zero knowledge of MORBID Anatomy?
what differentiates a medic from a pharmacist are: Good knowledge of Pathology, Medicine, surgery, psychiatry, o an G as they make you a sound doctor. Pharmacology is the only relevant course to Medical students from pharmacy as other parts are irrelevant in clinical practice...
The same pharmacology is applied to all the specialties of medicine and you're not aware of that..So where does your pharmacology take you to!
I respect my case!

So you think a pharmacist have no knowledge of pathology, you think all they do in 6 years is to cram names of drugs, without knowing the diseases it cures/treats. LOL, you did pathology as a borrowed for just a year and you think you are masters of pathology. Better search online about pharmacy syllabus and also search about consultant pharmacy, which is very common in US and UK.
LoL, most pharmacist wouldn't even think of being a consultant, when there are many better field one can venture in. You will find out the truth as time goes on.

And stop mentioning course to compare medicine and pharmacy, do you also do pharmacognosy. There are 6 departments under pharmacy, and you guys only does one, just like na pharmacistever did surgery. But, talking about pathology and pathophysiology, you must be joking. You think, all what a pharmacist knows is the names of drugs

Snowale:
So you think a pharmacist have no knowledge of pathology, you think all they do in 6 years is to cram names of drugs, without knowing the diseases it cures/treats. LOL, you did pathology as a borrowed for just a year and you think you are masters of pathology. Better search online about pharmacy syllabus and also search about consultant pharmacy, which is very common in US and UK.
LoL, most pharmacist wouldn't even think of being a consultant, when there are many better field one can venture in. You will find out the truth as time goes on.

And stop mentioning course to compare medicine and pharmacy, do you also do pharmacognosy. There are 6 departments under pharmacy, and you guys only does one, just like na pharmacistever did surgery. But, talking about pathology and pathophysiology, you must be joking. You think, all what a pharmacist knows is the names of drugs

That guy is too shallow minded,he's either a JAMBite or a medical student,when he comes to the real world he will understand.
Stop wasting ur time on him

Snowale:
So you think a pharmacist have no knowledge of pathology, you think all they do in 6 years is to cram names of drugs, without knowing the diseases it cures/treats. LOL, you did pathology as a borrowed for just a year and you think you are masters of pathology. Better search online about pharmacy syllabus and also search about consultant pharmacy, which is very common in US and UK.
LoL, most pharmacist wouldn't even think of being a consultant, when there are many better field one can venture in. You will find out the truth as time goes on.

And stop mentioning course to compare medicine and pharmacy, do you also do pharmacognosy. There are 6 departments under pharmacy, and you guys only does one, just like na pharmacistever did surgery. But, talking about pathology and pathophysiology, you must be joking. You think, all what a pharmacist knows is the names of drugs

Like I said, Pharmacology is the only relevant course in your department to a Medical Doctor...the rest are not.... Medical students know the nitty- gritty of PATHOLOGY because they do it as a subject not as a course...
The basic Medical sciences you do are just periphery with the small materials they pass to you..
We do everything indepthly with mighty books which you people don't think of buying...

Face your lane... All hands are on deck to fish you quacks out....No doctor will ever do a pharmacist's job but reverse is the case for you when ofcourse 80% of you wanted MBBS at one point in time but you couldn't get it...

Embrace your new found love and practice it diligently...Don't be a "Doctor wannabee'

Period007:

That guy is too shallow minded,he's either a JAMBite or a medical student,when he comes to the real world he will understand.
Stop wasting ur time on him

Kai, that's how they start hating other health workers right from their days as undergraduate. When they graduate they will try to be HODs of hospital pharmacies, laboratories, or eye clinics. they think they know everything about the department. Just Because of a 1 year borrowed course.

MrEgghead:
Like I said, Pharmacology is the only relevant course in your department to a Medical Doctor...the rest are not.... Medical students know the nitty- gritty of PATHOLOGY because they do it as a subject not as a course...
The basic Medical sciences you do are just periphery with the small materials they pass to you..
We do everything indepthly with mighty books which you people don't think of buying...

Face your lane... All hands are on deck to fish you quacks out....No doctor will ever do a pharmacist's job but reverse is the case for you when ofcourse 80% of you wanted MBBS at one point in time but you couldn't get it...

Embrace your new found love and practice it diligently...Don't be a "Doctor wannabee'

Doctor what!!! Seems you don't know why MBBS, Dentistry, Optometry, Vet. med, pharmacist graduates are awarded doctors, it's simple because if the extra work load and extra 2 years+ they spend in school.

Pathology is also a course offered by pharmacy students, and they do it as borrowed course just like you guys, but in 2 good years, unlike you guys. LOOL.
You think it's all about carrying big textbooks, who told you pharmacist don't but textbooks. Better try visiting a pharmacy school. You think pharmacy is easy. We do more of pathology than you guys, even those that do pathology the most ie medical scientists, they don't want on social media. Pharmacy is far broader than medicine, and it's not only limited to the hospital.

Like I said earlier. It's only an unoriented person that would see Medicine as a better course. Why most of you go into the course is because of the respect people gives to them, which they are now loosing. But, a lucky jambite that sees someone to orient him well about both courses would go for pharmacy. That's the fact, no one want to study six years in school, just to be limited to just hospital jobs or to be forced sit for several exams in order to travel abroad or be force to bribe with huge amount of money in order to get into the residency program, or be forced to get loan to build a hospital just to find out pharmacist and laboratories generates most of the money(who pays a consultant in nigeria for telling him his illness and writing drugs on paper) most later shut down the hospital which is very common, and many more.

A pharmacist would always be proud of his profession, while a medic most atimes proud of only the Dr. tag. Now a pharmacist have both. It's just a matter of time, because I know you are either an aspirant or a student, when the time comes you will understand.

Randy100:
You are now sounding so emotional. Laws are made to keep order. From your comment, we should go ahead and forgive Evans the kidnapper since Babachir Lawal is free man after all they stole from people. The truth is that the world is unfair to some people, some would be lucky in her shoe while others won't but those who are caught should face the music, the law should deal mercilessly with them. You know why? It will discourage those that have the intention of following the same path.

so people like this still exist.

Snowale:
Doctor what!!! Seems you don't know why MBBS, Dentistry, Optometry, Vet. med, pharmacist graduates are awarded doctors, it's simple because if the extra work load and extra 2 years+ they spend in school.

Pathology is also a course offered by pharmacy students, and they do it as borrowed course just like you guys, but in 2 good years, unlike you guys. LOOL.
You think it's all about carrying big textbooks, who told you pharmacist don't but textbooks. Better try visiting a pharmacy school. You think pharmacy is easy. We do more of pathology than you guys, even those that do pathology the most ie medical scientists, they don't want on social media. Pharmacy is far broader than medicine, and it's not only limited to the hospital.

Like I said earlier. It's only an unoriented person that would see Medicine as a better course. Why most of you go into the course is because of the respect people gives to them, which they are now loosing. But, a lucky jambite that sees someone to orient him well about both courses would go for pharmacy. That's the fact, no one want to study six years in school, just to be limited to just hospital jobs or to be forced sit for several exams in order to travel abroad or be force to bribe with huge amount of money in order to get into the residency program, or be forced to get loan to build a hospital just to find out pharmacist and laboratories generates most of the money(who pays a consultant in nigeria for telling him his illness and writing drugs on paper) most later shut down the hospital which is very common, and many more.

A pharmacist would always be proud of his profession, while a medic most atimes proud of only the Dr. tag. Now a pharmacist have both. It's just a matter of time, because I know you are either an aspirant or a student, when the time comes you will understand.

Pathology a borrowed? when we have specialists in Pathology, you could as well say paediatrics, obs and gynae are all borrowed courses because they don't have the tag Medicine, WTF.

Between, there's nothing like a borrowed course to Medical students as the primary aim of establishing Basic Medical sciences is to service MBBS/BDS students before they started awarding degrees..You're talking about Pharmacy being broader, No sane person will say...
We have almost 30 specialties in Medicine and just 6 or 7 in pharmacy, there's a difference..

We now have Medical Doctors who are specialise in pharmacology, they now teach medical students in UNIBEN...That's to tell you how Medicine is evolving and dominating.

Snowale:
Try confirming, I got mine some years after, but as transcript form my secondary school. Ask if it was WAEC not GCE and ask how she got it

I will do that.
Thanks.

Again with the Superiority Mentality.
Medicine is good.
Pharmacy is good,so are Other Health Courses.

Pharmacy School now Award Pharm. D
The same way Physiotherapy Award DPT.
MLS will Follow, and other Health profession.

They will All be called Doctors because they Earned it.
They will will not Take over the job of A Medical Doctor(If that is the Fear).
I know Most of Us Applied for Medicine at one time or the Other due to Wrong orientation. All we Knew Then was Medical Doctor and a Nurse. But Things are Changing Real Fast.
On a Platter,i will Not Study Medicine we all Have a choice.i am where i want to be Already.

Enough with this Health Rivalry!.