COMMUNITY PHARMACY: A PLACE TO TAKE CARE OF MINORS

Abstract

harmaceutical care, for the benefit of minor patients,
results from the evolution of the professional exercises
and from the modification of health systems organization. The mutual influence of the law, the practice
or the ethic is favoring an appropriate minors’ accompaniment by pharmacists. This reflection on the pharmaceutical care oriented toward teenagers underlines
the practical and legal difficulties to look after minors
in a pharmacy. A legal study comparing France and
Quebec gives a new perspective for the adoption of
appropriate professional standards. The pharmacists
from Quebec can supervise a medicinal therapy, adjust a medical prescription, prescribe a treatment or
a contraception for a minor, without the parents or
guardians consent when the patient is over 14 years
old.