[Tagging] semi pharmacies

[Kevin Kenny]

On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 12:57 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> what about pharmacies that don’t prepare medicines, only sell prepackaged
> products, I guess it’s still ok to tag amenity=pharmacy?
>

In the US, most pharmacies dispense only prepared products.  They do things
like count pills from wholesale containers into retail ones, and
occasionally reconstitute liquid medicines from lyophilized powders. (Of
course, they serve the main function of consulting with patients and
advising them on proper administration, possible side effects and drug
interactions, and so on.) A pharmacy that prepares individual medicines is
called a 'compounding pharmacy' on this side of the pond, and they're
relatively rare. I can think of only a time or two in the last couple of
decades that I've received a compounded medicine - and that was something
that a surgeon decided I needed as an intraophthalmic injection during a
procedure. There was no FDA-approved formulation for that drug adapted to
that route of administration, so he had the hospital's pharmacy compound it.

I think that if there's no established tagging, I'd use something like
'pharmacy:compounding=yes/no'. But I'd want to consult with a UK English
speaker to make sure that I'm using a term suitable to OSM tagging; I'm not
certain of the difference among "pharmacist", "druggist" and "chemist" on
the other side of the Pond, or whether 'compounding' is the right word to
use in Merrie Olde Englande.

-- 
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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