Why Pharmacists in Philippines are Paid Less than the Amount WE Deserve

Why are Pharmacists paid less? Have you asked that yourself? Do you know why? I think I do..

Pharmacists, though we studied for four or even five years, though we strived hard, very hard to pass the board exams, though we know that our knowledge on drugs and medications are far less compensated than how it should be, we can blame no one but ourselves..

We simply get paid less because we act less.. we act less of a professional.. we act less as a pharmacists.. we become less.. look for example the setting in our community.. what do pharmacists do? we get the cash give the meds. pathetic, we become less of who we are, we simply become sellers and not primary health care practitioners. We should care for the patients and for the drugs, not merely of the cash and profit! that is where we become less and that is why we are paid less.

As what I see and what I believe in, it is us that sets the level of our integrity in compensation, I hope that someday the "licensiadong tindera/o" image would come to fade and let the ideal pharmacist come to practice.