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Can pharmacists give prescriptions

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

If by "give" you mean "write", then under some circumstances and in some locations they're allowed to write prescriptions which may legally be filled. But in general, physicians (MDs and DOs) have the broadest prescribing authority.

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