Abstract
For several years, those associated with the profession of pharmacy have become increasingly aware that the graduating pharmacist is overtrained for the usual duties he performs in the drugstore or hospital pharmacy. This development has resulted from a variety of influences, among which are an extra year of study for the Bachelor of Science degree, more sophisticated and technical classes in the pharmacy curriculum, and increased efforts by drug manufacturers to improve the ease of drug dispensing, which practically eliminates the compounding of prescriptions. Both local and national pharmacy organizations, recognizing the problem, have proposed new roles for the pharmacist in an effort to make better utilization of his considerable knowledge. One such proposal adopted by the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) was presented to organized medicine in the form of a white paper entitled<i>The Pharmacist's Role In Product Selection</i>. This paper contains the premise that the pharmacist is best
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