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In 1968, the associate editor of Modern Hospital announced that clinical pharmacy was the “hot new trend” in pharmacy circles. Pharmacy educators developed the concept of clinical pharmacy—and launched the first clinical pharmacy programs—in the mid-1960s as a new type of pharmacy practice that was patient oriented, rather than drug product oriented. The new clinical pharmacist was to “function as an integral member of the patient’s health care team and will be personally involved with all aspects of the patient’s medication problems from the time of admission to the time of discharge, and he may well be involved in follow-up supervision of the medical regimen for the discharged patient.”