<p>So I am a pre-med student right now and I was all for medical school all throughout my first two years in college. I could definitely make it into a good medical school (not to sound cocky or anything) but I have been thinking about pharmacy school because I really don't want to go through all of the horror stories I have heard about medical school and I know that i will not be comfortable with life as a doctor. But I do kind of feel that I have worked really hard and maintained a high GPA that it will be kind of a waste if I attend pharmacy school because the requirements to get in are so much lower than medical school. Could somebody compare medical school to pharmacy school (maybe pros and cons?) and give me some information on what kind of pharmacists there are and if you could specialize in something pertaining to the cardiovascular system? Any help would be really appreciated, I just want to know more about pharmacy before I get into it.
THANKS!!</p>
<p>It depends what you think you will be most happy in. Not all pharmacy students end up being the ones who put pills in bottles or are pharamaceutical reps...there are a lot of diverse fields in pharmacy..</p>
<p>If you say you know you wont be comfortable with life as a doctor, then no way in hell should you do it</p>
<p>when you say there a lot of diverse fields, what kind of fields do you mean? Thanks!</p>
<p>Pharmacy is for people who couldn't get into medical school go to med school simple enough!</p>
<p>sooo.....anybody intelligent? lol</p>
<p>My mother is a pharmacist, so I can speak a little bit to what the field enables you to do.</p>
<p>When you ask whether there are many diverse fields, the answer is yes. My mother's specialty was psychiatric pharmacy; I therefore assume there is a similar specialty in cardiological pharmacy.</p>
<p>Pharmacists are probably equipped to do everything from dispensing drugs at an actual pharmacy to helping test drugs in major clinical trials to actually working in a hospital in a clinical role - what this role is, I'm not sure.</p>
<p>In theory, pharmacy school should train you for most of the chemotherapeutic aspects of medicine (not just "chemo" in the traditional oncological sense of the word). Whether this plays out in the real world, I am not sure.</p>
<p>well there is always pharmaceutical engineering and manufacturing, it pays pretty well too I believe</p>
<p>"Pharmacy is for people who couldn't get into medical school go to med school simple enough!"</p>
<p>And with YOUR grammar, you'll never get into medical school :P</p>
<p>quote: "and I know that i will not be comfortable with life as a doctor."</p>
<p>You answered your own question. </p>
<p>Pharmacy is a wonderful profession. You may wish to talk with a few to get a clearer picture of what they do (and what their job is like on a day to day basis). Hands down, a pharmacists knows medications better than ANY doc I've ever met. </p>
<p>For your typical pharmacist position, you should ask yourself:
1. Do I like working with computers?
2. Do I mind being confined to a small space all day long?</p>
<p>Just a tip: personally, with the typical pharmacy job, I think working for a hospital would give you more variety and space than working for a drug store.</p>
<p>my dad's a pharmacist and he loves it. another branch of pharmacy is owning your own business. This is a great option because my dad not only works and deals with patients, but he also has to be a businessman and work with inventory, building his volume by having lunch with doctors, and hiring/firing. He used to work for Savon but got tired of just dealing with patients. Plus the pay is really good. (he prolly makes more than doctors)</p>
<p>I wouldnt be surprised if he did, my freind's freind owns a pharmacy and makes over 300K a year.</p>