Pharmacy erred over continued paracetamol dispensing: coroner

A pharmacy continued to pack paracetamol into a man’s Webster packs long after a prescription for the medication expired, a coroner has noted “[I]ncluding medications in a DAA, without a prescription, risks shifting the clinical decision-making responsibility away from the individual’s treating practitioner and into the hands of the pharmacist,” Victorian coroner Ingrid Giles has