Where We Stand
Section: Professional Standards
Policy: Dispensing by Physicians

Dispensing by Physicians

It is OMA policy that the traditional checks and balances provided by a system authorizing physicians to prescribe and pharmacists to dispense are essential to the public health and welfare of the consumer. Individual physicians must make their own decisions on this issue based on applicable laws and the health needs of their patients.

Adopted at the annual House of Delegates, 1987.
Reaffirmed at the annual House of Delegates, 2011.

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