Guy-Armel Bounda
As I read the article entitled “Are pharmacists the ultimate barrier to pharmacy practice change?,”[1] and as a PhD candidate majoring in clinical pharmacy, I felt that raising my opinion will be another step forward to the issue. Before stressing out the issue of pharmacy practice change, I would like to point out the basic mission of pharmacy practice. The mission of pharmacy practice is to provide medications and others health care products and services and to help people and the society to make the best use of them.[2] Based on this mission, we should know that all practicing pharmacists are obliged to ensure that the service they provide to every patient is of appropriate. Over the past four decades there has been a trend for pharmacy practice to move away from its original focus on medicine supply towards a more inclusive focus on patient care.[3] In the pharmacy change, the role of the pharmacist has improved considerably, from a compounder and supplier of pharmaceutical products towards a provider of services and information: patient care. When i quote Richard Hooker (1554-1600): ‘Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.’[4], we know changes are really important for making a step forward.
