Prescription Dilemma

A dilemma of all pharmacists is the question of whether to dispense or not to dispense. Receiving of an incorrect, erroneous, violative, and whatever you call it prescription is a practice of what is becoming an everyday scenario.

Should a pharmacist allow the dispensation of a drug which prescription is with a brand name and no generic name? or the vice versa? Or worst a prescription with generic and brand names not matched, why is this happening? Is it because of the doctors that lacks of responsible act or a rapid significance of the eradication of the right practice proceeding to the common practice of the society?

Who should be forfeited with the right of practice? The doctors who lack of producing a correct prescription or the pharmacist who straightforwardly consider this unprofessional conduct and dispense the drugs?

I think this practice should be given a halt! This abuse is the cause of wrong dispensation of drugs, the cause of over/under dose and causes a major waste of money, time, and effort to the patient. Why give a limit on writing a correct prescription? Would it hurt if one would check on the MIMS to see the correct brand and generic name and eradicate the on going practice of dispensation with an incorrect prescription?

Blaming the pharmacist of this irregularity is not the precise thing to do for we are not the root of this anomaly, it is the doctors who effortlessly write this prescriptions leaving the scolding and questioning to the pharmacist.

This dilemma should be given a dot by us, the next generation of pharmacist; we can be of great change if together we set an ambition.