You'll never know how easy it is to buy prescription drugs in community drugstores without a prescription from a medical doctor unless you have tried it. (You can even fake the name of the patient that the drugstore clerk writes on the receipt.) And you'll never know how severe the effects of drug misuse and abuse unless you have worked in a hospital...
It only means that the laxity in drugstores is a reflection of how we have failed as guardians of the public health.
Quote of the day
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.
- Erwin L.Espinosa, MD on his article "Legislation and the law of unintended effect" dated September 16, 2002
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