A pharmacist used the name of doctors

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Dominique Scali

Monday, September 4, 2017 21:41

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A pharmacist of Montreal has been cancelled for two months for having falsely used the name of doctors to sign orders to the records of several members of his family because he did not have the time to wait with the emergencies to consult.

“[These are] serious. In so doing, the respondent makes a diagnosis, which does not fall under its competencies, ” concluded the disciplinary Board of the College of pharmacists, in a judgement delivered on the 1st of August, but released last week.

The pharmacist Mouhamad Shalt Alshamaah has indeed been a write-off of two months for its ” lack of integrity “, one can read in the judgment. He pleaded guilty to 18 charges leveled against him.

A native of Syria, Mr. Alshamaah practice as a pharmacist employee in Montreal and Laval since 2009. On multiple occasions between this date and 2014, he has scored prescriptions without a prescription real records of his son, his ex-wife and his current wife, enumerates the disciplinary Board.

Claim to the insurer

To do this, he used ” false names and numbers of licensed physicians.” Mr. Alshamaah also claimed the cost of these drugs to his or her insurer, to be approximately $3500.

The pharmacist was going through a difficult period, said in the judgment. Reaches a problem of respiratory health, he was then faced with a premature infant and sick. Sole provider of the family, he worked two jobs to provide for the needs of his own.

“Being under pressure, he does not want to wait endless hours in emergency to see a doctor,” says the judgment, adding that he did not have a family doctor.

It has, therefore, consulted a friend doctor who has agreed to provide him with orders a few times. “As a result of which, without a prescription, it has provided medicines for himself and his family “.

“He never has acted this way for the general public it serves […] He regrets many of his actions and said he learned a lesson “. He had stopped his bad behaviour prior to the start of the investigation, he said in the hearing.

“Nonchalance “

The fact remains that, according to the syndicates of the Order, there is a ” lack of judgment “, said in the document. It notes the “nonchalance” and the “lack of introspection” actual pharmacist.

“It is not an isolated case. This way of acting began after obtaining his permit and is extended, in two different places, over a period of almost five years “, recalls the syndicates.

The disciplinary Board believes, however, that the risk of recurrence is now ” unlikely.”