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quires his participation on the counter, as the drug counselor for patient. Pharmacists surely aware that working behind the table is not his common work, he has to meet the patient in order to make a better relationship with patient or maybe another motives such as profit maximizing from selling more medicines. That's why I call this is the dynamic of a profession because personal interests often occur between professional values and organizational demands.

One of distinctive feature of pharmacist as a profession is his responsibilities to predict and overcome drug related problems (DRPs), actual or potential that may be suffered by patients. A study Paulino (Paulino, et al. 2004) indicated that systematic intervention by community pharmacists in discharged patients or their proxies is able to reveal a high number of DRPs which might be related to patient health outcomes. It shows that patient more changes in drug regimens and using more drugs are more likely to suffer DRPs, therefore special attention should be given for these target groups. Readers digest, best selling consumer magazine in the world on 2008 conducted Europe Health Survey to discover the influence of pharmacist across Europe. It is said that 'Although the recommendation of a doctor remains the most important influence on consumer's purchase of remedies and drugs, more and more people in every country are relying on their pharmacist for good advice', they concluded that influence of pharmacist has increased by 20% across Europe. Moreover, 80% from total 20.000 respondents said that pharmacist are most trusted person for information about health (Digest 2008).

In a book 'Pharmacy Practice' by Kevin Taylor and Geoffrey Harding (Taylor and Harding 2001), explains clearly how community pharmacy practices vary among countries. In Europe, most pharmacists are moving towards pharmaceutical care philosophy, the patient is increasingly becoming the focus of pharmacists' attention. Although pharmacies under financial pressure because some governments want to reduce their health care budgets include tighten the drugs budget, concomitantly pharmacists' role is increasingly important to provide drug information to patients and health care professionals (Mil 2001). In North America, pharmacists are practiced differently in every region. In the USA, pharmacists and physicians are encouraged to follow the drug formularies. Formularies are written with several purposes such as to eliminate inferior, less effective or dangerous items, and also useful instrument for cost containment by prescribing and dispensing drugs that is more cost effective (Serradell and Wertheimer 2001). In the developing countries, the provision and delivery of pharmacy services cannot be separated from political and economic framework in which they operate. There are many features of pharmacy services that are common in developing countries, that may difference significantly to developed countries. Fact shows that most drugs are supplied without prescription, self medication is common practice in the developing countries. People in poor countries are often dealing with inaccessibility of drugs. Pharmacy practice, just like health care services, are bounded by the lack of financial support and that is the reason why pharmacists are difficult to provide comprehensi本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。