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Retail Pharmacy Info |
Retail pharmacy is the domain of human life with two-faced nature. It
means that the people who work in this sphere are retailers as well as
the experts in their profession. Anytime you come to the pharmacy store
you will be offered a wide selection of medication and
non-medication items, a service of experienced, trusted and
fully-licensed pharmacists.
Retail pharmacies usually comprise the complex of several rooms: the
sales room and the dispensary. In the sales room the samples of the
medications are placed in the showcase and the process of
selling-buying is held. The dispensary is the room where all the pharmacy drugs are
stored and dispensed.
Retail pharmacy activity deals with selling drugs to the customers for
personal use. Thus, if a customer has a medical prescription from his
or her practitioner the medication may be ordered in the pharmacy or on
the phone. In case of on-phone order the customer has to send the fax
with the prescription to the retail pharmacy store. If the customer is
about to buy a no-prescription
pharmacy
item he or she may get it right in the store as an over-the-counter
drug. Retail pharmacy stores also sell such non-medication entries as
tonometer units, crutches, thermometers, etc. as no-prescription items.
All retail pharmacies are required to have a pharmacist on duty. In
some countries it is also required that the owner of the retail
pharmacy store should also be a registered pharmacist.
Retail pharmacy stores sometimes sign a contract with a hospital to
which they may provide medication with delivery service, especially in
case if any of the patients has a specific kind of illness which
requires immediate dose of a rare drug.
Retail pharmacies also offer the service of the co-pay cards. The
software of such pharmacies comprise the information about primary and
secondary insurer to pay for the patient's prescription.
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