E-DRUG: Re Dispensing Doctors (cont)
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From: Timothy Dodd <Cath_and_Tim_Dodd@compuserve.com>
If you erect a good argument for the importance of pharmacists between
the prescriber and the patient, how will you defend OTC prescribing?
That is actually part of the problem. But then I think pharmacist are quite
competent to prescribe OTC drugs! The major problem is the definition of
the roles of the different healthcare professionals in the process of
health services delivery. However this has been marred by the industry as
well as medical aid schemes who pays for these drugs to be dispensed by
people who should not be doing it anyway.
My main concern remains, in the present scenario and seeing the way things
are going, where is the future role of pharmacists, should they still train
them for I don't see many of them agreeing to be employed as dispensers by
the small private dispensing doctors and as far as the business of retail
pharmacy is going, if you do not receive scripts then there is no business,
of course unless you decide to dispense prescription drugs without
prescriptions.
Margareth Magagula
pharmacist, CMS
Swaziland
Email: magmu@realnet.co.sz [manually added by moderator; WB]
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