Pharmacy and Bioethics
Khroutski, Olga A Khroutski, Konstantin S
Khroutski, Olga A
Khroutski, Konstantin S
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In this article authors argue that, at present, the object of the patient who is independently purchasing medicines is missed. However, a serious bioethical problem is that this patient (medicating himself) sacrifices safeguards of professional (physician's) supervision and, thus, risks to take unacceptable drugs and dozes. Hence, modern pharmacist has to face bioethical issues in daily practice and herein he is a genuine 'gatekeeper' for the medical system, informing while serving the consumer. This problem has a special significance in Russia for the reason that there has happened the spontaneous and mass re-classification of the majority of prescription drugs and their transition into the kind of over-the-counter medicines. Tackling this problem authors put forward (concerning rational pharmacotherapy) a novel category of 'pharmaceutical pharmacoethics' and, further on this basis, - a bioethical conception of the 'Doctor of Pharmacotherapy' (DPT) in a drugstore. DPT is a bioethical notion, which is realizable principally on the personal level of pharmacist's operation. The figure of 'Doctor of Pharmacotherapy' is designed to directly serve the interests of human wellbeing: (a) on becoming informed on the rational pharmacotherapy (in his particular condition); (b) in enhancing free access to medical care; (c) in improving the person's entire quality of life.
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2002-05
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