On Saturday 03 July 2004 01:30, Jeff Green wrote:
> "The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's fitness to practise and legal affairs
> directorate has received calls from pharmacists who have been approached by
> American or Canadian counterparts to dispense prescriptions written by
> doctors registered in the US. Pharmacists are reminded that such
> prescriptions are not valid in the UK and any supplies of prescription-only
> medicines to patients against prescriptions signed by US registered doctors
> would be unlawful.
This is about on-line prescribing of Viagra, Vicodin and similar medicines,
and if we were clever enough would not be about on-line repeats of Atenolol
and Bendroflumethiazide (though not of course together).
The English or logic is poor, in that a doctor registered in the UK and in
America should be a satisfactory signatory - the issue is absence of
registration in the UK, not presence of registration in the N American
continent.
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Adrian Midgley (Linux desktop)
GP, Exeter
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