[Tagging] semi pharmacies

[Timothy Noname]

As a native Englander:

I've never seen or heard of a compounding pharmacy but I believe that is
the correct term.
As a place Chemist and Pharmacy are identical in meaning.
If a pharmacy doesn't have a licensed chemist and doesn't sell medication
that is "prescription only" or "over the counter", then it is not a
pharmacy, it is just a shop.
Any shop can sell medication that is "off the shelf". Supermarkets usually
do.


On Mon, 9 May 2022, 20:21 Kevin Kenny, <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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