Health Care Professionals Group

When pharmacists need some medication for themselves, what do they do?

For example, are they allowed to get it from their own place of work, as long as say, a doctor allows the order and a fellow pharmacist fills it? Or do they have to go to an entirely different pharmacy altogether to avoid possible drug stealing claims or something to that effect?

Public Comments

1. I don't know. I have often wondered. If you find out look up my profile and give me a call
2. they have to have a prescription and it gets filled wherever. normally they dont handle their own meds, but theres a record for everything so it works out most of the time
3. in my country they can have any medicine the doctor prescribe him exactly like any other patient that would be stupid to send him to an other pharmacy but he must pay for them like everybody
4. for non-OTC drugs i have to seek my doctor for the records. for OTC drugs, i need not to.
5. we fill prescriptions just like everyone else. we technically aren't suppose to fill them ourselves, but there is no rule against us filling it at our pharmacy. We still get a doctor to write a prescription, and we have it filled, and pay our copays just like anyone else. most of us do not steal drugs. pharmacies don't assume that their employees are going to steal drugs if they fill prescriptions for eachother. If you worked at GAP, would you be allowed to buy clothes there? or are they afraid that you will steal the clothes and make you buy it at another GAP. What if you live in a small city and work in the only GAP in the city and the next closest GAP is 50 miles away. same thing.
6. umm its against the law for us to get our own medicine. We get it from other people. I like to grow plants better and use them for medicine since most plants are not against the law to do. For example I take Prickly pear for Chlosteral. Its healthier and not so refined.