04/28/2026
Awesome!
A customer of mine — and fellow small business owner — found this gem and gifted it to me a couple of weeks ago. As I read the words from 1972 describing the value of pharmacists in America at that time, I couldn’t help but feel a little envious of the respect and esteem pharmacists were once given.
These days, it feels like we are fighting for every inch we have at the healthcare table.
Having to prove our value.
Having to prove our necessity.
Having to prove our community’s need for us to exist.
It doesn’t matter if it’s 1972 or 2026, pharmacists are and always have been VITAL to the health of our communities, and what we do matters. ❤️
“In grateful recognition of America's pharmacists, whose efforts since colonial days have maintained and improved people's health, the United States Postal Service has issued this special commemorative postage stamp.
Across the nation, pharmacists play a vital role as partners in health, preparing and dispensing the life-supporting medicines that modern pharmaceutical science has developed, drugs that are necessary to the physician's work. But to many people, pharmacists are more than just dispensers of drugs, however important this role may be; the pharmacist often is a close friend and trusted advisor of his customers.
In addition, pharmacists on the staffs of pharmaceutical firms, through their continuing research and development of new drugs, have revolutionized the practice of medicine and helped increase the life span of millions of Americans.
For all of these reasons, America's pharmacists were honored on November 10, 1972 with the issuance of this special stamp which has been placed on this commemorative plaque and postmarked from Cincinnati, Ohio on its first day of issue.”
