Compounding pharmacy

Compounding is the practice of preparing drugs in new forms. For example, if a drug manufacturer only provides a drug as a tablet, a compounding pharmacist might make a medicated lollipop that contains the drug. Patients who have difficulty swallowing the tablet may prefer to suck the medicated lollipop instead.

Another form of compounding is by mixing different strengths (g, mg, mcg)of capsules or tablets to yield the desired amount of medication indicated by the doctor. This form of compounding is found at community or hospital pharmacies or in-home administration therapy.

Compounding pharmacies specialize in compounding, although many also dispense the same non-compounded drugs that patients can obtain from community pharmacies.

Exercise 17. Speak about, using the plan and given patterns.

Hospital pharmacy

hospitals, differ considerably, from community pharmacies, to have more complex clinical medication management, to gain more education and training after pharmacy school, to specialize in hematology/oncology, HIV/AIDS, infectious disease, critical care, emergency medicine, toxicology, nuclear pharmacy, pain management, psychiatry, anti-coagulation clinics, herbal medicine, neurology/epilepsy management, pediatrics, neonatal pharmacists and more.

Clinical pharmacy

Clinical pharmacists, to provide direct patient care services, to optimize the use of medication, to promote health, wellness, and disease prevention, inside hospitals and clinics, to improve pharmaceutical care, to work in various medical and surgical areas.

Consultant pharmacy

to focus more on medication regimen review (i.e. "cognitive services") than on actual dispensing of drugs, to work in nursing homes, independent business owners, to work directly with patients, to employ consultant pharmacists and/or provide consulting services.

CURIOUS READING

• FOOD FOR THOUGHT

It isn’t just an old wives’ tale that says fish is good for brain and the more fish you eat the smarter you will be. “Brain foods”, according to scientists, also include:

• Egg, yolk;

• Rye, oats, barley and rice;

• Vegetables, especially greens and peppers;

• Oils (for example, olive oil).

But fish, especially salmon, herring and mackerel, is the brainiest of all!

• FOOD THAT DOES NOT SPOIL

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archeologists and found edible!

• POOR DEARS

Believe it or not, but the average man will spend 145 days of his life shaving and will have removed around 25 metres of beard from his face by the time he retires!

• HOW TO BECOME LUCKY

New research suggests that people are not born lucky but create and improve their own good luck as they go through life.

Dr. Richard Wiseman has spent 10 years trying to find out why some people are luckier than others. He has come to the conclusion that lucky people, without realizing it, follow four basic principles:

• They expect good luck to come their way and go through life in the certainty that the future will be positive.

• They are good at spotting and creating opportunities and make the most of chances they get. They aren’t afraid of new experiences.

• They have the ability to cope with bad luck – they imagine how things might have been worse and find a way to make things better. They try to turn bad luck into good luck.

Dr. Wiseman has even set up a Luck School for people who want to become luckier. And he says that people who attend it have been more fortunate already.

“You really do make your own luck” says the scientist.

• TEEN SUPERSTITIONS

Do you believe in ghosts? According to a survey, British teens do. Here are some figures:

• 40% are convinced that ghosts exist;

• 35% say they believe in horoscopes;

• 30% believe it possible to contact the spirits of the dead;

• 22% believe that fortune tellers can see into the future;

• 20% believe in black magic.

GRAMMAR

PRESENT SIMPLE

Present Simple используется

Для описания постоянных ситуаций:

Jane works in a hospital.

Для повторяющихся действий в настоящем:

We often visit them in summer.

Для общепринятых фактов и законов природы:

The sun sets in the west.

Для расписаний или программ:

School starts at 8 o’clock.

Утвердительная форма

S + V1(s)

I know It knows

You know We know

He knows You know

She knows They know

Отрицательная форма

S + do (does) not + V1

I do not know I don’t know

You do not know You don’t know

He does not know He doesn’t know

She does not know She doesn’t know

It does not know It doesn’t know

We do not know We don’t know

You do not know You don’t know

They do not know They don’t know