U-M Pharmacist Will Head Group

U-M Pharmacist Will Head Group

Francke Is Elected By State Association

Don E. Francke, chief pharmacist at University Hospital, was named president of the Michigan branch of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the 12th annual pharmaceutical conference being held here today.

Other officers elected were: Vice-president, Dean Esten P. Stout of the Detroit Institute of Technology College of Pharmacy; secretary, Bernard A. Bialk, Detroit; assistant secretary, Mrs. Belle Moskowitz, Detroit, and treasurer, R. W. Klein, Detroit.

Toledo Man Speaks

Garrett F. Emch, Toledo pharmacist and member of the Ohio State board of pharmacy, told the conference this morning that “medical schools should turn out graduates who know drugs and medicine as well as anatomy and diagnosis, instead of leaving that part of a doctor’s education to pharmaceutical houses.’’

“Medical colleges leave the doctor’s training in drugs and medicines to pharmaceutical houses, telling the graduates they can pick it up when they start in practice,” Emch said.

Essential In Medicine

Pointing out that it is not easy for doctors to admit absence of this type of education, Emch added that the fully trained pharmacist has been increasingly helpful to the medical profession as a source of information regarding the increasingly complex field of pharmacy.

Pharmacists can do much to obtain the confidence of physicians, Emch declared, by carrying only the highest quality pharmaceutical, chemical and biological products available, by having adequate stocks at all times, and by maintaining reference libraries so that pharmacists may answer any questions of doctors concerning drugs.