What is the penalty of a College of Pharmacy Pharmacist for failing to identify a patient as a patient?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Farbeh v. The College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, 2015 BCSC 642 (CanLII):
The petitioner submits that the penalty must be examined bearing in mind three considerations: (a) the protection of the public; (b) the interests of the profession as a whole; and (c) the particular circumstances of the individual member and the offending conduct. Patel v. Ontario College of Pharmacists (1999), 130 O.A.C. 291 at para. 11 (Div. Ct.).
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