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Does Pharmacy Specialization Have a Promising Future?
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The need for specialized pharmacists is growing in all practice settings, thanks, in part, to the cost-conscious nature of managed care.
The demand for specialized pharmacists is in stark contrast to the flight from the use of expensive medical specialists by managed care plans and the growing use of primary care doctors in the role of patient case managers. But specialized pharmacists, especially in healthsystem settings, are a bargain compared to medical specialists, experts believe.
Because pharmacy specialists aren't paid directly as providers the way physicians are, from a pure dollars-and-cents perspective, the economic drivers that conspire against medical …
