2020 Volume 55 Issue 1 Pages 78-82
In this report, the author proposes the phrase, Philosophy of Pharmacy. In Japan, such a phrase has scarcely been used by pharmacists because they have considered medicines and drugs as materials and have not focused on their patients enough. As a way for pharmacists to consider their patients more, the author recommends the following two philosophies: 1. Revision of the Pharmacists Act Article 1: A pharmacist is to contribute to the improvement and promotion of public health by dispensing of medicine, and supplying medicines and other pharmaceutical health and sanitation services, thereby ensuring citizens lead healthy lives. The above, Article 1, needs to be revised by adding the following sentence. In addition, pharmacists should observe the new code of ethics for pharmacists introduced in 2018, and sympathize with patients to contribute to their medication. 2. Fully Consider Patients' Needs The author made a figure illustrating the relations between natural science（pharmacy），cultural science, social science and cultural art with care taken to fully consider the needs of the patient.
