are doctors allowed to dispense medicines? (coz I know a lot of them) If not, what can we do when we encounter MD, who dispenses drugs?

report it to the FDA.. to put sanctions on them..haha.. but seriously, a lot of them are doing it now.huh..

Hi Yeng,

Doctors are not allowed to dispense medicines. PPhA has already made important actions pertaining this issue.

1) the word "dispensing" was omitted under the scope of practice of physicians (Medical Act )

2) the recently submitted (to the 15th Congress) Pharmacy Law further strengthens that "only pharmacists could legally dispense medicines."

3) dialogue with FDA re: this issue (in order to establish a system which could prevent or control this practice - "dispensing doctors")

The best that we could do right now is to be more competent and more assertive in performing our tasks as pharmacists, which include dispensing of medicines (with counseling and providing drug information), for everyone to realize that we do have an important role to play in the health care system; which is more than just SELLING medicines.

if ever mam that we will encounter one what measures can we do about it? are there any legal ways that can be recommended?

Thanks for your concerns re: dispensing doctors. What we can do right now is start doing a listing of these doctors, names and location of practice. What PPhA can do is either submit the list to PRC or to inform PMA since they are also not in favor of such practice. Keep observing wrong practices so we can do something about thewm. Thank you.

In the same manner that doctors are not allowed by law to dispense medicines, pharmacists are also NOT allowed to prescribe medicines… and doctors know that, too.

In his article, “Legislation and the law of unintended effect" dated September 16, 2002, Dr. Erwin L. Espinosa boldly said:

“Will pharmacists be covered by the Medical Malpractice Act? Go to any drugstore today without a prescription and ask the person on the counter what is the best medicine for this and that and they will sell you something. While BFAD classifies a number of medicines as over-the-counter, every doctor knows that even aspirin taken for the wrong ailment can cause a patient to bleed to death or die of an acute allergic reaction.

“Or if there should be a mis-dispensing of drugs at the drugstore, who shall be liable the doctor because of his handwriting, or the drugstore clerk? It is an open secret that many drugstores are running only on the 'borrowed licenses' of pharmacists. Only a few drugstores can produce the 'pharmacist on duty' on a bright and sunny day within one minute.”

I suspect that maybe the reason why the word “dispense” found its way into Senate Bill 1900 is because of our failure to do properly what we are licensed to do.

Former Health Secretary, Dr. Alberto G. Romualdez, Jr., claimed that “here in the Philippines, until the advent of the Pharmacy Law…, most private Filipino patients obtained their medicines from the doctors who prescribed them. In most of the country, dispensing physicians were historically a big help in the distribution chain of drugs and they ensured that services were reasonably priced. Unfortunately, the practice has largely disappeared mainly because, under the Pharmacy Law, doctors were allowed to dispense only those medicines that they directly administered either by injection or inhalation or direct application to specific organs.” (“Anti-poor conspiracies.” Malaya 18 Aug. 2004.)

If we take these statements seriously, I think we also have a lot of cleaning to do with pharmacists’ wrong practices.

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is there a bill or law that is against the dispensing of physicians? can anyone give me a website where i can read it? thank you...

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