US pharmacist-doctor fight
May 11, 2010
PHARMACISTS in the USA have
slammed a report by the American
Medical Association which aims to
significantly limit the scope of
practice within pharmacy.
The ‘AMA Scope of Practice Data
Series: Compendium on
Pharmacists’ was completed last
Sep, and is one of ten supposedly
educational “information modules”
on various health professions by the
doctor’s association.
It’s the subject of a robust
response by Henri R. Manasse Jr,
who’s ceo of the American Society
of Health-System Pharmacists.
Manasse said the AMA document
contains “numerous inaccuracies,
false statements and
mischaracterisations about
pharmacy practice and pharmacist
education”.
The AMA publication warns that
closer collaboration across the
health care team “has the
potential to lead to independent
authority for pharmacists to monitor
and modify medication therapy”.
Other AMA reports in the same
vein seek to control the activities of
dentists, optometrists, nurse
practitioners, audiologists,
podiatrists, psychologists and
naturopaths, warning that any
increase in their scope of practice
“may be harmful to the public”.
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