"Know Your Medicine, Know Your Pharmacist" with American Pharmacists Month

The American Pharmacists Association is celebrating American Pharmacists month throughout October, and encourages pharmacists to "celebrate the pharmacy profession, recognize your pharmacy staff, and to reach out to your patients." The APA hopes to enhance relationships between patients and their pharmacists, with the ultimate end of making pharamcists more effective and improving patient care.

The aims of American Pharmacists Month reinforce several of Put Pharmacy First's Principles for Retail Pharmacy Reform. Valuing quality of care over "fast food pharmacy" - the APA offers suggestions for how pharmacists can improve their relationships with patients - is something pharmacists and customers everywhere can agree on.

There's lots more information on the American Pharmacists Association website, or click on Take Action to sign our Principles for Reform. And enjoy American Pharmacists Month!

Meet Ray F.

My name is Ray Funatsu and I've been a pharmacist since 1963. In '74 I started working as a manager with Sav-on until '94; that's when I stepped down because it got to be a little too much. I worked until 2000 and retired and now I'm on-call.