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Can you tell me the difference between pharmacy and clinical pharmacy and which one is better?

Pharmacy is a multidisciplinary and comprehensive profession including pharmacy, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and traditional Chinese medicine, etc. She uses modern scientific theories and technology to study the design and development of new medicines, the appropriate routes and forms of medication, as well as the rationality of the clinical use of medication. From the point of view of the history of pharmacology in China, the ancient Chinese medicine once had brilliant achievements. Tao Hongjing's Collected Notes on the Classic of Materia Medica, and Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica, the magnum opus of pharmacology, are still benefiting people until today. Modern pharmacy with the rise of chemistry, physics, biology, anatomy and physiology and the development of its main symbol is the discipline of division of labor is more and more fine, especially since the 20th century, the early pharmacy, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, has been with biology, chemistry, clinical and other disciplines of the interpenetration of each other, has developed into a number of fringe disciplines;

And Clinical Pharmacy is the study of the pharmacist to provide patient Health care is the study of pharmacists providing patient care to optimize drug therapy, health promotion, and disease prevention. The practice of clinical pharmacy encompasses the principles of pharmacy service: specialized therapeutic knowledge, experience, and judgment for the purpose of ensuring the best possible prognosis for the patient, while incorporating some elements of supervision. As a discipline, clinical pharmacy is also responsible for generating new knowledge related to the development of health and the improvement of the quality of life.

The choice is yours as to which is better!