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Explanation of What a Compounding
Pharmacy Is
and Why Should a Physician Use Drug Compounding?
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Pharmaceutical compounding can
enhance any physician’s practice. You can improve upon patient compliance
and outcome by taking the time to understand your patient’s needs, and
combining your skills with those of our compounding pharmacists to develop
products for the specific needs of your patients.
Each patient is an individual so
why should one drug fit all. Each individual’s reaction to a particular
medicinal substance (natural or synthetic) is different.
Difficult-to-predict factors include fast-versus-slow metabolism,
bioavailability, side effects, and cellular transport. This biochemical
individuality can pose difficult barriers to appropriate prescribing.
Compounding allows you to respond to each person’s uniqueness in an
individualized way.
No longer are you limited to
"standard" medicine. Your choices now include new routes of administration,
dosage strengths, pharmaceutical combinations and the ability to develop
new, potentially helpful compounds. Medicine can be as large as your
imagination will allow.
Familiar medications may be used
in novel combinations and administration routes. Natural medications may be
combined with commercial pharmaceuticals. With your imagination and our
consulting pharmacists’ expertise, we can prepare a broad range of drugs for
office dispensing or patient prescription.
During the patient counseling session, our
pharmacists will emphasize that you have prescribed a custom compounded
medication to treat their unique medical requirements. This can be a
powerful message to the patient; the physician and pharmacist view this
person as an individual with individual medication requirements. As patient
response rates increase, so will their sense of well-being. Satisfied
patients always seem to find a way to "spread the word" of your ability to
listen and help.
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