One of my primary goals in life is to pursue a career in medical
studies, particularly in the field of pharmacy, and in order to achieve
this goal, I plan to pursue a Doctor of Pharmacy degree. My primary reason
for selecting pharmacy as my career course is influenced by my motivation
to heal, serve, and educate myself and my community to promote optimum
health service. Furthermore, pursuing a career in pharmacy involves
assuming the roles that I find fulfilling intellectually and personally:
providing the health care needs of people, obtaining knowledge about the
proper use and application of pharmaceuticals, and implementing the
manufacture and control of drugs and medicines that will be appropriate and
beneficial to the people/patients' needs.
The main thrusts of my primary objective are centered on three
important aspects that pharmacy can contribute to my self-development as a
future medical practitioner: to heal, serve, and educate.
The first thrust I am subsisting to is that as a pharmacist, I can
give HEALING to people in dire need of medical help. Healing, for me, and
in the pharmacist viewpoint, is to provide people with easy access to drugs
and medicine that people need to cure their illness or maintain their
health. Making health drugs and medicines accessible to those who need
them is a service to the people and a fulfillment to the medical
practitioner, whose main role is to ensure that people's health needs are
Aside from making health drugs accessible, healing also concerns
providing counsel for people/patients. This means that not only do
pharmacists have the role of providing health drugs and medicines to
patients, they also have the role to inform the patients about the
appropriate drug or medicine that they should take for their illness.
Thus, pharmacists act as a secondary counsel' after doctors and physicians
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