Chemist or Pharmacy?

Pugzilla

Pharmacists are not chemists. A pharmacy degree is professional degree specifically for the safe dispensing and monitoring of medications. They study chemistry only to the point that is needed for the job (pharmacology). They have a much deeper understanding of how medications work than doctors. It's an important role as they'll often correct prescribing errors, advise on medication options and optimise dosages etc.

Chemists are scientists, their theoetical knowledge can be far more in depth and specialised than that of a pharmacist and goes far beyond that of just pharmaceuticals. Lots of different fields in chemistry like organic, inorganic, physical, biochemistry .etc.
Some of these overlap with physics and biology.

Akrasia

Pugzilla wrote: »

Pharmacists are not chemists. A pharmacy degree is professional degree specifically for the safe dispensing and monitoring of medications. They study chemistry only to the point that is needed for the job (pharmacology). They have a much deeper understanding of how medications work than doctors. It's an important role as they'll often correct prescribing errors, advise on medication options and optimise dosages etc.

Chemists are scientists, their theoetical knowledge can be far more in depth and specialised than that of a pharmacist and goes far beyond that of just pharmaceuticals. Lots of different fields in chemistry like organic, inorganic, physical, biochemistry .etc.
Some of these overlap with physics and biology.

Yeah, but who would be better at cooking meth in a breaking bad scenario?

Just asking for a friend

Pugzilla

Akrasia wrote: »

Yeah, but who would be better at cooking meth in a breaking bad scenario?

Just asking for a friend

Chemist. Apparently it's not that difficult at all to make meth.

The big sign over the top saying "pharmacy" made my mind up

andekwarhola

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

IWhen I was a kid though the man who owned the local 'that business' was HIMSELF known as Jimmy the chemist'.

Sounds like the owner of a meth lab.

andekwarhola

Always chemist as a kid.

Now, either, especially when ridiculed for being old by my kids (cf. saying The Pictures instead of The Cinema or, worse, The Movies).

Gyalist

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Always thought it was strange as a kid when I watched It's A Wonderful Life that George called the pharmacist a druggist, made me think he was a wrongun.

Where I grew up the signs usually said, "X - chemist and druggist".

Capt'n Midnight

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Dude! Drugstores is where it's at, y'all!

(Although failed to deliver what it promised ... )

About that, how come "Superdrug" doesn't sell pain killers ?

35cent

I use the term pharmacy as it's more accurate. I'm a chemist but you don't want me giving you advice about medicines :pac:

Fred Swanson

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Badly Drunk Boy

From the late, great Mark E Smith...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl34oJEoO7s

Vita nova

When I was young it was the chemist's. Not like today's pharmacies all clean and white, the chemist's was small and dark with shelves full of glass bottles with glass stoppers labelled iodine, bromide, glycerine etc., and a smaller range of packaged medicines.
There was also a guy called Al who worked in the back turning lead into gold.

MikeyTaylor

Drugstore.

Akrasia

Vita nova wrote: »

When I was young it was the chemist's. Not like today's pharmacies all clean and white, the chemist's was small and dark with shelves full of glass bottles with glass stoppers labelled iodine, bromide, glycerine etc., and a smaller range of packaged medicines.
There was also a guy called Al who worked in the back turning lead into gold.

He had a working particle accelerator?

Awesome!

Billy86

Both work fine.

The weird one is that many Americans I've known assume 'chemist' as 'breaking bad style illegal drug producer' but never see anything odd about them calling it a f*cking DRUG STORE!

Rhyme

The pharmacist is in the chemist.

Phwoar.

fxotoole

Akrasia wrote: »

He had a working particle accelerator?

Awesome!

I think he was an alchemist, rather than a chemist.

TomOnBoard

fxotoole wrote: »

Anyone else use the word chemist to describe a pharmacy? I know my dad always uses the word chemist, which leads me to believe it’s an older generational thing. Or is it a word that found its way into the Hiberno-English vernacular from somewhere else?

chemist = person; pharmacy = place.
pharmacist = chemist who works in a pharmacy mixing chemicals to make pharmaceuticals or dispensing premixed pharmaceuticals

ohnonotgmail

TomOnBoard wrote: »

chemist = person; pharmacy = place.
pharmacist = chemist who works in a pharmacy mixing chemicals to make pharmaceuticals or dispensing premixed pharmaceuticals

No the actual shop itself was called the chemists when i was a lad.

TomOnBoard

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

No the actual shop itself was called the chemists when i was a lad.

It was called the chemists in the same way as the meatsellers was called the victuallers or the food store was called the grocers.

You'd have seen the sign on the shop painted as Roches Chemists (see attached photo from 1964 in O'Connell St) or Kellys Grocers etc.

So the shop would be colloquially known by the name of profession practiced by the owners.

ohnonotgmail

TomOnBoard wrote: »

It was called the chemists in the same way as the meatsellers was called the victuallers or the food store was called the grocers.

as in that is what they were actually called.

TomOnBoard wrote: »

You'd have seen the sign on the shop painted as Roches Chemists (see attached photo from 1964 in O'Connell St) or Kellys Grocers etc.

So the shop would be colloquially known by the name of profession practiced by the owners.

I'm not quite as old as that photo but i do remember that shop as a kid. Everything you said has just backed up the point that fxotoole said earlier.