The Ethical Principles in Pharmacist-Patient Relationship
Published: March 1, 2019 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2019/39812.12692
Kourosh Delpasand, Leila Afshar, Saeed Nazari Tavakkoli
1. Assistant Professor, Pharm.D, LL.B, PhD of Medical Ethics, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
2. Assistant Professor, MD, PhD of Medical Ethics, Department of Medical Ethics, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,
Tehran, Iran.
3. Associate Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and the Essentials of the Islamic Law, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Correspondence
Leila Afshar,
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
E-mail: leila.afshar@iran.ir
As the pharmaceutical services are growing these days, author witness an increase in relationship between the pharmacists and patients. So, the legitimacy of their interaction plays an important role. In the present article, in addition to introducing the ethical principles governing the pharmacist-patient interaction, certain ethical challenges associated with these principles are also addressed. These principles have been categorised into six groups based on medical ethics.
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