Antibiotics Dispensing Dilemma

My colleagues and I finally agreed that we should NOT  TOTALLY  give antibiotics without prescriptions anymore. Not only that we are apt to endanger the health of people,  our drugstore is likely to pay its penalty once we are busted by the FDA, for not complying.

Unfortunately, we tend to encounter wholesalers from time to time. These usually comprise of small sari-sari stores who also sell emergency medications - like paracetamol, a cough-cold preparation, anti-diarrheal medicine, antacid etc. Emergency medications are generally OTC or Over-the- Counter meds. However, people are becoming accustomed to antibiotics like amoxicillin, cloxacillin, erythromycin and others as OTC as well.

For regular customers, it is easy not to give them antibiotics if they do not have a written order. But, for wholesalers who buy an item per box, dispensing a 100pcs of antibiotics to them can be tempting. And to think, most of them have no idea about  antibiotics and their hazards.

It's quite a dilemma for someone who wants to make profit. Then again, we will be breaking our own rules.

Sometimes, I wish that I'm selling clothes instead. Of course, I'm joking.

phoenix35 05 21 14

*Update as of 2017: NO RX NO ANTIBIOTICS