No joke, a Polish man walked into the chemist, and he didn't know how to ask for a pregnancy test, and he said "maybe there's a baby, maybe not". Hahahahahahahaha
They're probably called chemists in other countries as sometimes doctors will create a custom prescription and pharmacists are then expected to create it. More often than not it's a topical solution but also for certain liquids they have to mix them themselves. I work as a pharmacy tech and we have what we call compounding stations it's where all the fun mixing and flavoring happens.
Perhaps so. I'd probably be called a chemist, too. It varies, but around half of my day is making solutions. However, I might also be called a physician, microbiologist, computer scientist, physicist, or even pharmacist on the basis of particular activities.
Most pharmacies are called a pharmacy on their signage but generally in conversation we'd say e.g. "I need to go to the chemists", we still call the pharmacist a pharmacist.
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