The pharmaceutical industry, which had been in conflict over the remarks by Minister of Food and Drug Safety Oh Yoo-kyung on the introduction of prescriptions by ingredient name, faced off with a drug out-of-stock situation this time. As cold medicines were out of stock due to the simultaneous outbreak of Corona 19 and the flu (influenza) (twindemic), demand from the pharmaceutical industry to allow prescriptions by ingredient grew, and the medical community once more insisted on the selective division of labor.
When the Korean Association of Pediatricians filed a complaint with the People’s Sinmungo on the 21st, requesting a temporary selective division of labor, the Korean Federation of Doctors stepped in to support it. Through a statement on the same day, the Jeon Eui-chong supported the request for an emergency selective division of labor by the Small Medical Association, and ultimately insisted that “the separation of medicines and medicines should be reevaluated and the people’s selective division of labor should be implemented.”
Although the pharmacists are demanding prescriptions by ingredient name due to the recent shortage of medicines and the deterioration of health insurance finances, he said, “It does not stop at the division of medicine that only pharmacists are satisfied with, and they are claiming that they will not take responsibility properly because of their greater greed.”
He said, “We stole medicine from the doctor” due to the separation of prescribing and dispensing. “It is an easy-to-misunderstand pun that says ‘Treatment goes to the doctor and medicine goes to the pharmacist.’ It is the doctor who prescribes according to the patient’s condition and is responsible for various side effects. It is the doctor, not the pharmacist, who understands the patient’s disease and uses the medicine.”
He said, “The drug expert is called a pharmacist, but that is in the area of ’production and management of medicine.’ Doctors are experts in administering medicine to patients.” has become ambiguous, and public inconvenience has only increased.”
The Jeon Eui Chong demanded, “Reevaluate the forced and ill-designed separation of prescribing and dispensing, and implement a selective division of labor so that people can freely receive drug services wherever they want.”
