For those people in pharmacy, isn't there a difference between a pharmacist and a pharmacy tech?

yep

Pharmacist = UBC Education (4 years + 1 year of undergrad)
-Responsibility and liability rest on their shoulders
-Responsible for final check of prescriptions before they're given to anyone
-Deals with drug related problems and assesses appropriate drug use in collaboration with other health care professionals... Can make recommendations and give advice to people


Pharmacy Technician = couple months program at a college, or no training sometimes
-Does technical functions within a pharmacy (i.e. counting)
-Cannot make recommendations or give advice
-Cannot take verbal prescriptions and discuss drug therapy with doctors

So, I'm sure most of you guys working in healthcare in BC got that Email from your health authority CEO regarding consolidiation.

Any news?

I just transfered from the clinical lab to lab information systems. I might switch back to clinical if things start to look bad.