Question

What does this whole paragraph mean???

Pharmacists are health care professionals who use their expertise in medicine to help people understand what are the medications they are taking, how they will help, and how they will react. They also give out information and counsel patients on over-the- counter (OTC) drugs. Pharmacists also participate in disease-state management, where they optimize and monitor the drug therapy or interpret medical laboratory results – in collaboration with physicians and/or other health professionals. Pharmacists have many areas of expertise and are a critical source of medical knowledge in clinics, hospitals, medical laboratories and community pharmacies throughout the world.

Answer 1

Take it one sentence at a time. What don't you understand in each sentence?

Pharmacists are health care professionals who use their expertise in medicine to help people understand what are the medications they are taking, how they will help, and how they will react.

They also give out information and counsel patients on over-the- counter (OTC) drugs.

Pharmacists also participate in disease-state management, where they optimize and monitor the drug therapy or interpret medical laboratory results – in collaboration with physicians and/or other health professionals.

Pharmacists have many areas of expertise and are a critical source of medical knowledge in clinics, hospitals, medical laboratories and community pharmacies throughout the world.

Answer 2

http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1303432946

Answer 3

I don't understand the last two paragraphs. What is disease state management? optimize? collaboration?

Answer 4

http://www.answers.com/optimize

http://www.answers.com/collaboration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacist
<i>Pharmacists also participate in <b>disease-state management</b>, where they optimize and monitor the drug therapy or interpret medical laboratory results – in collaboration with physicians and/or other health professionals. </i>

Answer 5

Disease-state management means to manage a disease. This includes the medications used to treat the disease and how these different meds react with each other.