A Look At A Career In Community Pharmacy "...Pharmacists are the principal resource to patients and other health professionals in assuring appropriate use of, and optimal therapeutic outcomes from medications" (Shall I Study Pharmacy 1). Pharmacists are health care professionals responsible for the dispensation of prescription and non-prescription medications. Many pharmacists are consultants to the general public along with physicians and other health care providers. One of the earliest known pharmacists in the United States was Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Pharmacy education began in the United States at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, fou