PEDIATRICS Vol. 84 No. 2 August 1989, pp. 399-400
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Office-Based Medication Dispensing

WILLIAM G. BARTHOLOME MD, MTS1

1 Dept of Pediatrics, Kansas University Medical Center, Rainbow Blvd at 39th St, Kansas City, KS 66103

As I read the statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine concerning office-based medication dispensign, I was struck by the absence of any sensitivity to the serious ethical questions that have been raised regarding so-called "dispensing." The word "propriety" is used once; the word "ethics" not at all. I wondered about the cause of this moral blindness on the part of the members of this committee and, by implication, my fellows in the Academy.