The client, a pharmacist, was charged by the regulator with dispensing to themselves a prescription pharmaceutical product. A careful mitigation included the facts that no patient had been harmed, that the pharmacist was aware of the therapeutic and adverse effects of the product in question, and that the profession itself had not been brought into disrepute. Result: Reprimand.

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