Today Is...National Pharmacist Day

Pharmacy is taken from the Greek word pharmakon which, ironically, means either remedy or poison so it is just as well that Pharmacists undertake a minimum of five years training in chemistry, biology, pharmacology, physiology and pathology because you relly wouldn't want to get those mixed up. 
When we think of pharmacists, we generally picture someone standing behind a counter, filling our prescriptions and offering health advice and as the NHS continues to creak under years of under-investment, they are becoming many peoples first port of call and where they go for flu and Covid shots as their roles and responsibilities continue to expand.
The largest chain of Pharmacists in the UK is Boots and they got themselves into hot water a few years ago when they began selling the 'morning after' contraceptive pill and priced it at £30, five times more than in other European countries.
Boots attempted to justify the cost but saying that by making it so extortionately expensive: 'It helps prevent emergency contraception from being misused or overused' and allows them to offer 'important sexual healthcare advice to women'.
It was pointed out that the pill is a way to avoid unwanted pregnancies, as are condoms but you can buy them for £3 a packet and they didn't come with advice to any men who bought them so was it just women who need to be lectured about having sex?
To be fair they did cut the price and apologise once the news of protests outside the stores and boycott of their goods reached them and threatened their profits although i will never forgive them for making an advert where they took the Christmas Classic and changed the lyrics to 'I Wish It Could Be Summer Everyday' to flog sun tan lotion.