The Teaching of Medical Law as an integral part of Good Pharmacy Practice

Abstract

Those aspects of medical law pertaining to medical malpractice are not particularly popular with either teaching staff or under/post-graduate students. The situation changes when an individual is facing Court allegations. This article puts forward the concept, as applied to Pharmacy, that Good Practice demands an integral basic assimilation of the teachings of medical law as a concrete way to enhance positive teaching. Furthermore, both the morality and the legality of practice are becoming more or more an indispensable and often compulsory necessity of knowledge for many specialties of healthcare practice. Although the author is a professor of OBGYN, he also teaches medico-legal studies in a leading university department of pharmacy in Rome. His argument is that this must become the rule and not be the exception.