Pharmacy is a place, a career, and sometimes a business. A pharmacy is a place where licensed pharmacists dispense medicine on receiving a valid prescription written by a legal prescriber. A pharmacy is not a drugstore. Some businesses today do not have pharmacies, but do sell medicines bought without a prescription (over thecounter drugs, or OTCs). A pharmacy can be a free-standing building, or it may be found inside other places like a drugstore, a medical office building, or a hospital Pharmacists are registered by a board of pharmacy, and therefore are designated registered pharmacist. However, this title is only conferred after passing rigorous national, state practice, and law examinations. Pharmacists must always be vigilant for counterfeit prescriptions written by drug abusers who are trying to get narcotics and other controlled substances illegally. Pharmacy also means the practice of pharmacy as a profession. Pharmacy is an information intensive profession. The availability of affordable computers and the advancement of information technology have resulted in our ability to rapidly and effectively access, retrieve, analyze, share, and store large volumes of information pertinent to patient care. __ampersandsignnbsp; __ampersandsignnbsp;