29th, February 2008, 12:02 AM
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 Re: Dispensing errors compensation for patients
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Originally Posted by Zoggite  If you are only a Pharmacy student and you are working as a Dispenser, then the Buck stops with the Registered Pharmacist who should have made the final check before handing the meds out to the patient; A non-pharmacist cannot be held liable above a pharmacist. That is why Phcists get paid so much more than Dispensers: because the final legal responsibility rests with them!(even when the prescriber has made a mistake, as in the recent Lloyds dexamethasone case...) | Fines in Boots peppermint water baby death case
In your dreams.
Jeff
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