Yes, of course.
If pharmacists didn't need to monitor the medications people were taking or if their advice wasn't useful, drugs would be sold on store shelves, with no follow-up.
It's important to recognize that the work pharmacists do when they provide patients with prescription drugs is quite complex. They check for drug interactions. It is thanks to pharmacists that patients can be sure they are taking the right drugs. That is the kind of care I was talking about.
It is a pharmacist's job to review the list of medications that a person is taking. For example, if an elderly patient is taking multiple medications, the pharmacist has to make sure that the drugs are accurately listed in the patient's file. They have to do that for all patients. More and more pharmacists are providing those types of primary care services in pharmacies. That is part of the care that pharmacare involves.