October is additionally National Pharmacist Month and was selected for this special day to extend this celebration. The first woman pharmacist in the nation was Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf.
She was both a mother and pioneer for women in pharmacy and October 12 honors her. Currently, women make up 75 percent of the workforce in this field. Sixty years ago, this number was 8 percent. Women have made amazing strides in earning PharmDs and becoming pharmacists, with over half of all PharmDs graduates being women. Women Pharmacist Day is about celebrating these women for being the healthcare providers that are trusted in their communities for other women.
Women, for example, make up approximately 80 percent of decisions regarding purchasing for their families, according to the statistics. Searching for the history of National Pharmacists Day was a fruitless endeavor, so we decided to investigate the history of pharmacies instead. And we discovered that pharmacies go back a long, long time.
They go all the way back to Ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt. In Egypt, physicians were also priests and they were divided into two classes: those who remained in the temple and prepared the medicines and tinctures patients needed, while others visited the sick to administer those medicines in person. This made them both physicians and pharmacists at the same time.
In ancient Greece and Rome, the duties of pharmacists and physicians were separated from one another sometime during the 8th century A. This trend continued through Europe during the Middle Ages until the city council of Bruges passed a law that forbade doctors from filling medications for their patients in In the United States during the 17th century, Benjamin Franklin appointed an apothecary to Pennsylvania Hospital, and this helped to reinforce the practice of keeping the duties of doctors and pharmacists separate from one another.
Doctors would tend to the patients medically, and pharmacists would make sure that they prepared the medicines that these doctors needed for their patients. Of course, as pharmacies evolved and grew over the next few hundred years, their role changed slightly.
There are many more examples. Trust is a reservoir of goodwill for future use, 7 and pharmacy has built up a big reserve over many years of caring and excellent practice. Now our societies are in a time of general distrust, fuelled by the COVID pandemic and the infodemic around it.
Trust barometers have found that distrust of societal leaders has increased and distrust of information sources is at a record high. We give advice based on the best scientific evidence. We can oppose the anti-vaxxers. We can use the trust in us to benefit our communities. This factsheet is also currently available in Romanian and Spanish.
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