blog 51

As of now, my major is currently pharmacy.  Pharmacy has been my interest since my senior year of high school.  I shadowed a friend of my mom and dad who is a pharmacist my senior year.  I found the pharmacy environment to be a nice place to work. Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs. The scope of pharmacy practice includes more traditional roles such as compounding and dispensing medications, and it also includes more modern services related to health care, including clinical services, reviewing medications for safety and efficacy, and providing drug information. Pharmacists, therefore, are the experts on drug therapy and are the primary health professionals who optimize medication use to provide patients with positive health outcomes.  Drugs and the way they react with our bodies has always interest me and that’s probably the main reason I chose this major.  The salary is fairly alluring also, being six figures.  Addicting drugs is what originally captured by interest.  The fact that the effect a substance can have on a human brain that can be rewarding enough to make a person become addicted really fascinated me.  Most functions in the body can be controlled by a drug and it’s amazing how the right combination of compounds can have such a significant effect on the human body and the brain.  I think developing new drugs or being a pharmacist would be really cool.