An elderly patient visits a pharmacy at night and needs a refill on her maintenance prescription medication
Question:
An elderly patient visits a pharmacy at night and needs a refill on her maintenance prescription medication that she has been taking regularly for 10 years. The physician customarily renews the prescription for one year at a time. However, it is the end of one year, and the patient and the pharmacy have neglected to seek refill authorization. The physician is unavailable and she is flying on a 6 am flight with her husband for a two-week trip out of the country. Assume there is no law allowing for emergency refills and the pharmacist refills the prescription anyway, violating both state and federal law. A state board of pharmacy inspector discovers what happened and files his report to the state board. You are on the state board and must decide what action to take. How could the board proceed as an administrative agency? How should the board proceed and why? If you were the pharmacist, what would you have done and why?
Step by Step Answer:
Pharmacy Practice And The Law
ISBN: 9781284154979
9th Edition
Authors: Richard R. Abood, Kimberly A. Burns