Are they teaching or misleading?

❤ is there any ethic to be discuss?

A healthcare professional learns all sort of medicines, medical care and all but the very basic and important subject we all learn during our degree is the ethic and professionalism..

So how do you all define ethic and professionalism?..yea, we have protocols and guidelines to adhere and obviously there are some doctors or pharmacists out there who are not adhering to these protocols and therefore using their knowledge to gain benefit for their own interest putting patient's benefit or even health at risk..

What m i gonna post about today is that, if you are following my blog you know i m a pharmacy student in IMU...2day we were having a workshop about ethic and professionalism, hell yea, be ethical and be professional is what all the lecturers trying to encode into our brain..so there are 10 senarios and we were asked to discuss what is the option and what you should and should not do as a health care professional or more to say being a pharmacist..

Here's the first question, its roughly about a situation where the pharmacist having EXPIRED multivitamins in his pharmacy and should he sell it to the patients anot?

I don't think there is anything to be discuss further, the margin for this scenarios is so clear that we shouldn't sell the multivit anymore, its EXPIRED..its gonna put the consumer's health at stake, don't you all agree with me??

My pharmacy lecturer said: "the multivit will be selling in a loose pack (means its sell to the consumer in the plastic we normally get when we buy our meds), there is no way the patient will know its expired"

A coursemate of mine answered: "if the multivit is expired, maybe the colour or the coating may faded or it will looks diff and the patient will know."

Lecturer: "nah la, to us, yea sure we can know just by looking, but to those layman, they wouldn't know" 

*i was thinking WTF!!*
 

Another coursemate said: "wont the enforcement officer comes to check on the products and knows its expired?"

 Lecturer: " yea sure they will check, but you can show them the box of the multivit which are still usable, they can never tell which box you are getting from. Moreover, they will never get to the consumers. After all, you can try to bribe the enforcement officer"

 YEA, I WAS LIKE WTF X 1000 TIMES , i tot this is all about ethic??
 

Another coursemate said:" sir, are you trying to tell us that we are suppose to sell those multivit to the patient even if its expired?"

WTF, then he changed the question.. 

Lecturer:" okay, put it this way, if the product is near to expired like in a week time, will you sell it to the consumers and will the consumers want to buy it?"
 

Coursemate answered: "if there is a discount for that product i ll buy it."
 

Lecturer: "so as a pharmacist i think we should inform the consumers and let them choose, tell them that this discounted product is near to expiry date and you need to finish it in one week time and the other with no discount is with longer duration of expiry date."

WTF!!! EXPIRED products and near to EXPIRY DATE product is DIFFERENT!! can't he differentiate that?

Okay, i don't like this lecturer from the very start of the first class he taught us, coz all he likes is to do some really stupid jokes and non stop boasting on how good he is during his pharmacy practice..AND YES!!! I PERSONALLY DON'T LIKE HIM!!!

After you read what i've wrote about, don't misjudge, i m not those who will adhere strictly to the protocols as well...i do think doing something you yourself consider as ethical is important, there are something which is really subjective..

Like being a pharmacist, if a patient enter your pharmacy and buying laxatives regularly..and you suspect that she is misusing it to lose weight and might have some eating disorder, will you still sell the laxatives to her?

so whats the ethical issue here? sell it or not to sell it? for your own earning, yea you sell it...for her benefit, you shouldn't sell it to her, coz she is misusing it..

To my opinions is that, i will let her know every consequences that she might be facing if she is misusing the laxatives, let her understand that she is putting her health at risk and try to understand her problems, still the choice is with her, LET HER CHOOSE WHETHER SHE STILL WAN TO BUY IT!! i personally think that's a win win solution!! 

yea, i did my job as a pharmacist, i informed you and i advised you...if you insisted on buying it, i ll still sell it..coz even i don't she will still go to another pharmacy and get them, so whats the different, at least when she is really facing some difficulties, she will get back to me..coz she knows i care!!so am i being not ethical?

What a total sucks of today's workshop!!

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