Drug Importation

Health minister: It's "unethical" to prescribe drugs without knowing patient

Published in Law and Health Weekly, December 4th, 2004

Canada's health minister says doctors and pharmacists who give prescriptions to Americans without meeting them first are being unethical.

Ujjal Dosanjh made the comment while in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he announced funding for several hundred research projects at universities across Canada.

"The practice of countersigning prescriptions by doctors without actually having a relationship with the patient and properly assessing the patient is absolutely unethical and unprofessional," he said.

Spokesmen for the bodies that regulate pharmacists and doctors called the charge unfair and misinformed.

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Source: Law and Health Weekly (2004-12-04)

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