Abstract
Pharmacy is a profession characterized by inherent conflict. This conflict has been attributed to both the duality of its professional and business rolesi-' and to conflict between the values of professionalism and bureaucracy.9ecause of !he expansion of pharmacy chains, an increasing percentage of pharmacists are becoming employed in bureaucratic, retail organizations. At the same time the clinical pharmacy movement, stimulated by pharmacy curricula which now include a significant clinical training component, has been responsible for greater professionalization of pharmacists. Pharmacists are therefore socialized through the educational process to adopt certain professional ideals of practice which are in large part embodied in clinical pharmacy activities; however, bureaucratic pharmacy tends to ignore services such as clinical ones
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