Pharmacists duty-bound to fix prescriber mistakes

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Pharmacists duty-bound to fix prescriber mistakes

By Máté Hegedus-Gaspar
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If a doctor makes a script medication error, it is a breach of the patient’s rights if the pharmacist fails to rectify it, writes non-practising legal expert and pharmacist Máté Hegedus-Gaspar in the first of two articles on this topic

Imagine you receive a prescription for warfarin 500mg once daily. Would you dispense it? Can you think of any circumstance under which you would agree