This issue of Policy Forum (Volume 2, Number 23, December 12, 2012), The Role of the Pharmacist Revisited: Should the Changing Role of Health Care Impart the Obligation of a Pharmacist to Warn?, provides an overview of how courts around the country now treat a pharmacist’s duty to warn patients of adverse events. Author Roseann B. Termini, Adjunct Professor at Widener University School of Law, recommends that courts consider the specific relationship between a patient and pharmacist on a case-by-case basis to determine whether the pharmacist had a duty to warn.
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