The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7180 p15-21
5/12 January 2002

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Statutory Committee

Absurd decision

From Dr J. F. Harper, MRPharmS

How absurd that a member should be struck off the register (PJ, 8 December 2001, p833) because he failed to dispense methadone as daily instalments. Members of the Statutory Committee, pontificating from their pinnacle of supreme detachment, stated that "it does not matter how difficult the circumstances are".

Nonsense. It does matter, and the circumstances should always be taken into account.

It now takes five years to qualify as a pharmacist, and when one gets there one is paid less than a plumber and is treated as an Untermensch. No wonder new entrants to the profession are disillusioned.

J. F. Harper
London SW7

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