Doctor's Role in Collaborative Medicine

Medicine is important for treating diseases. For example, a medical doctor gives medication to patients for fever. However, there are times when certain medication are not needed such as antibiotics. Doctors should not give patients antibiotics for people who have common cold because
1) Common cold is caused by a virus
2) Antibiotics do not work on viruses
3) There is no good evidence that antibiotics help with common cold disease.

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Pharmacists' Roles in Collaborative Practice

Strong working relationships between pharmacists and physicians are needed to optimize patient care. Understanding attitudes and barriers to collaboration between pharmacists and physicians may help with delivery of primary health care services. The primary role of the pharmacist is evolving from a focus on dispensing medications to taking increased responsibility for and facilitating optimal medication use through collaboration. The increasing complexity of medication therapies underscores the need for strong working relationships between pharmacists and physicians to optimize patient care. The organized structure of institutional settings facilitates communication and collaboration between health care professionals. Hospital pharmacists have demonstrated their ability to improve care by decreasing mortality and morbidity, reducing adverse drug events and reducing health care costs. Pharmacy practice in now involves patient-centred care including counselling, providing ...

The importance of medicine and not to abuse them

Medicine is important for those who are sick. However people who are not sick should not use medicine. People have used cough syrup not for treating sore throat but for getting myself drowsy to get a better sleep. This is an example of substance abuse, not using medicine for its intended purposes. It is important to use medicine to treat an illness but it is bad if medicine is used to if someone is healthy. It is important to instruct patients how to take medicine properly and tell the patients the side effects and the effects of overdosing medicine. Patients should have been advised not to use medication outside from treatment.

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