Community Pharmacy

Exercise 10. Translate the text.

Exercise 9. Complete the following sentences.

Exercise 8. Translate the sentences from English into Russian. Try to find out the tense of the verbs.

1. Pharmacy is defined as the art and science of identifying, collecting, selecting, compounding and dispensing medications.

2. Pharmacy was an integral part of medicine when preparative pharmaceutical techniques were simple.

3. We may define pharmacy as the science of drug.

4. Pharmacy, as an independent branch of medicine was born in Europe in 1240.

5. The duty of pharmacist was to prepare and sell medicines and to help the doctor.

1. The word “pharmacy” is used……...

2. The first pharmacy in Europe was opened………..

3. Pharmacists are experts on……..

4. Pharmacists can specialize in……….

5. Pharmacology is sometimes considered………..

A pharmacy (commonly the chemist in Australia, New Zealand and the UK; or drugstore in North America; retail pharmacy in industry terminology; or Apothecary, historically) is the place where most pharmacists practice the profession of pharmacy. It is the community pharmacy where the dichotomy of the profession exists - health professionals who are also retailers.

Community pharmacies usually consist of a retail storefront with a dispensary where medications are stored and dispensed. The dispensary is subject to pharmacy legislation; with requirements for storage conditions, compulsory texts, equipment, etc., specified in legislation. Where it was once the case that pharmacists stayed within the dispensary compounding / dispensing medications, there has been an increasing trend towards the use of trained pharmacy technicians while the pharmacist spends more time communicating with patients. Pharmacy technicians are now more dependent upon automation to assist them in their new role dealing with patients' prescriptions and patient safety issues.

All pharmacies are required to have a pharmacist on-duty at all times when open. It is also often a requirement that the owner of a pharmacy must be a registered pharmacist (R. Ph.), although this latter requirement has been revoked in many jurisdictions, such that many retailers (including supermarkets and mass merchandisers) now include a pharmacy as a department of their store.

Likewise, many pharmacies are now rather grocery store-like in their design. In addition to medicines and prescriptions, many now sell a diverse arrangement of additional items such as cosmetics, shampoo, office supplies, confections, snack foods, durable medical equipment, greeting cards, and provide photo processing services.

dichotomy – последовательное деление целого на две части; дихотомия; деление класса на два противопоставляемых друг другу подкласса

dispensary – аптека

legislation – законодательство, законодательная деятельность

Exercise 11. Talk on the theme “My future profession”. Use the following questions.

1. Did you know about profession of a pharmaceutist before entering the higher school?

2. What do you know about pharmacy now?

3. Where does the word “pharmacy” come from?

4. How old is the science pharmacy?

5. Whom of the ancient scientists working in the field of pharmacy do you know?

6. With what science was pharmacy closely related?

7. Where did pharmaceutists receive education before the nineteenth century?

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