[Newsbot]

Title: B.C. pharmacists given power to renew prescriptions
Category: Health
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2008-09-18 18:37:18
Canadian

[robmik43]

Makes sense in most cases.
I know I trust my local pharmacists more than three of the doctors
on call at the local hospital emerg. dept. My own doc, fine, but
some of them, OMG.

[DerbyX]

That is a great idea and a long time coming. It will at least free up doctors from having to see patients to refill prescriptions meaning less waiting times.

Good job BC!

[Scape]

It's a potentially disastrous idea. It turns pharmacists into suppliers. This conflict of interest has the potential of putting profits before health. It also short circuits the fundamentals of capitalism, why may a better product when you can corner the market on pharmacists directly instead so that they eat out of your hand alone?

[DerbyX]

Scape Scape:

It's a potentially disastrous idea. It turns pharmacists into suppliers. This conflict of interest has the potential of putting profits before health. It also short circuits the fundamentals of capitalism, why may a better product when you can corner the market on pharmacists directly instead so that they eat out of your hand alone?

We already have that problem with doctors. Obviously we need the professionalism of pharmacists.

[martin14]

Scape Scape:

It's a potentially disastrous idea. It turns pharmacists into suppliers. This conflict of interest has the potential of putting profits before health. It also short circuits the fundamentals of capitalism, why may a better product when you can corner the market on pharmacists directly instead so that they eat out of your hand alone?

well said. it wont take long for the shortcomings and corruption to pop up.

[mtbr]

DerbyX DerbyX:

That is a great idea and a long time coming. It will at least free up doctors from having to see patients to refill prescriptions meaning less waiting times.

Good job BC!

"The province is following Alberta's lead, which started the practice last year as a way to increase access to medication despite the shortage of doctors."

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/n ... f7&k=96871

City pharmacists writing, not just filling, prescriptions

"More than 90 per cent of Alberta pharmacists can already adapt prescriptions or prescribe in an emergency."

I'll bet last year the response would have been different

[QBC]

Cool, maybe now the pharmacist will be able to get me pot!

[DerbyX]

mtbr mtbr:

DerbyX DerbyX:

That is a great idea and a long time coming. It will at least free up doctors from having to see patients to refill prescriptions meaning less waiting times.

Good job BC!

"The province is following Alberta's lead, which started the practice last year as a way to increase access to medication despite the shortage of doctors."

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/n ... f7&k=96871

City pharmacists writing, not just filling, prescriptions

"More than 90 per cent of Alberta pharmacists can already adapt prescriptions or prescribe in an emergency."

I'll bet last year the response would have been different

You would be wrong because I have been saying this was something we should be adopting way back when I first joined.

BTW, pharmacists writing perscriptions or altering them is a bad idea but renewing perscriptions is another matter.

[Scape]

DerbyX DerbyX:

Scape Scape:

It's a potentially disastrous idea. It turns pharmacists into suppliers. This conflict of interest has the potential of putting profits before health. It also short circuits the fundamentals of capitalism, why may a better product when you can corner the market on pharmacists directly instead so that they eat out of your hand alone?

We already have that problem with doctors. Obviously we need the professionalism of pharmacists.

And oversight which is already sorly lacking if the methadone maintenance program is any indication.


Simply put suppliers already provide heavy incentive to use only their drugs to doctors. The pharmacists will have no compunction whatsoever to get kickbacks and the only way it will be monitored is by the ministry of health which is already understaffed and has zero budget allotted to monitor for the potential of graft. I would be more in favor of this if there was some stipulation in place to monitor the system for abuse. As it stands the only way that is going to happen is when people end up dead.