Legal Pharmacy

• Laws are promulgated by specific bodies to define and regulate the profession and delimit its practice.
• Statutory laws are enacted by a legislative body composed of the Congress and the Senate and approved by the President of the country.
• Statutory laws dictate the conduct of persons or organizations subject to the law and enable regulatory agencies to regulate a field pursuant to the mandate of the legislative body.
• I take this vows voluntarily with the full realization of the responsibility with which I am entrusted by the public.
• I embrace and advocate change in the profession of pharmacy that improves patient care.
• Examples of statutory laws include RA 10918, the Philippine Pharmacy Act, RA 3720, the Food, Drugs, Devices and Cosmetic Act, RA 8203, the Special Law on Counterfeit Drugs, RA 6675, the Generics Act of 1988, RA 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002, RA 9994, the Expanded Senior Citizen Act, RA 7581, the Price Act, RA 7394, the Consumer Act of the Philippines, RA 9502, the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act, RA 9711, the Food And Drug Administration (FDA) Act Of 2009, and RA 10912, the Continuing Professional Development Act.
• Rules and regulations are promulgated by government agencies at the local, state and federal levels to enhance enforcement and understanding of the law.
• Bioethics is the concepts of fairness, just deserts and entitlements.
• In health care, we deal with distributive justice.
• The practitioner works to maximize the good for the patient and to minimize harm in bioethics.
• Bioethics binds both the practitioner and the patient in an association of truth.
• Three basic elements involved in the process of bioethics are: the ability to decide, the power to act upon your decisions, and respect for the individual autonomy of others.
• Bioethics means never to use treatment to injure or wrong the sick.
• Failure to perform the duty is when one fails to respond to the call of his profession.
• To each, an equal share.
• Professional ethics, also known as malpractice, is a term used to describe the application of ethics to biological sciences, medicine and related fields.
• Grave harm resulting from not doing one's duty or from doing the wrong thing due to lack of knowledge is referred to as injury resulting from failure.
• Bioethics are directives or guides in making decisions on what we ought to do or to be.
• The importance of bioethics includes providing awareness to the health team or workers of the "do's" and "don'ts" of medical practice.
• Law is an ordinance of reason, promulgated for the common good by one who has legitimate authority.
• Bioethics enriches one's competence by understanding that the patient is a person and a holistic individual.
• Bioethics is a systematic study of moral conduct in life sciences and medicines.
• Conscience is the practical judgment of reason upon an individual act as good and to be performed or as evil and to be avoided.
• Bioethics is an important aspect of trust that patients place in health care professionals.
• Universal Principles of Biomedical Ethics are a form of personal liberty, where the individual is free to choose and implements one's own decisions, free from deceit, duress, constraint or coercion.
• In bioethics, one ought to prevent evil or harm, one ought to remove evil or harm, and one ought to do or promote good.
• In a just society, we require procedural justice or due process in cases of disputes between individuals.
• Patients must give their approval through the process of informed consent prior to the initiation of care.
• Patients also have a right to treatment that is both safe and effective within given parameters.
• Medical Paternalism, the belief that the health care professionals knew best, was accepted as standard practice by most health care professionals and their patients.
• Patients expect that health care providers will respond to their wishes about their treatment.
• Patients can expect that clinicians will employ their knowledge and experience in caring for them.
• Patients generally choose their own physician, pharmacy and hospital.
• Legal Rights are rights that are guaranteed fundamentally by the Constitution and are provided by laws and regulations promulgated at the national, provincial or local level.
• Informed Consent involves Macro (competence, trustworthiness, caring, and arriolla), Micro (competence, trustworthiness, caring, and arriolla), and Micro (competence, trustworthiness, caring, and arriolla).
• Pharmacists must be able to effectively communicate that they care about their patients by providing adequate time interacting with their patients and attending to their concerns.
• Patients are allowed to choose from multiple options for treatment.
• Today, patients have become true consumers of medical care and have a right to be informed and to be asked for their consent.
• Moral Rights may be reinforced by laws, but their basis lies not in the law, but in ethical principles.
• A pharmacist places the health and well-being of the individual and the community at the center of professional practice.