I saw this practice first hand in Bangalore. Pharmacies are everywhere and they sell almost every kind of drugs available. Medical clinics on the other hand is less common compared to pharmacies.

Due to the separation of drug dispensing from medical clinics, clinics here are very simple, private doctors will usually have a very small clinic with a few tables and diagnostic equipments, suffice to say there isn't much in the clinic. They will state their name and qualifications on a small signboard outside their clinic.

They will only perform medical examinations, diagnosis and simple medical procedures in these small clinics but for the medications, they will write a prescription and they will ask the patient to go the nearby pharmacy to buy them.

The doctors will charge for their consultation service. (perhaps later I will upload an example of medical prescription given by Indian doctors here).

hmmm..... may we know both optiplex and hypermax studying what and where?

just for our (the entertained post readers') info.

Pharmacists do medical diagnosis is it? isn't that the doctor's job to provide medical diagnosis and write a prescription for the patient?.

LoL... who else then have the right to medically diagnose a patient? vets perhaps? heheh...

You a pharmacy student, you should know better who's job is it to diagnose and give prescription and who's job is it to give the medication? (here, I am in agreement that the sole right to provide medication is given to the pharmacist, but I disagree regarding the diagnosis part)

just pass the law already... then we will see a "BOOM" in pharmacist population in Malaysia.

Besides, i think a major influence for ppl to go for MD/MBBS lies in part due to the $$$ factor that they will earn in the future.

I would like to see what happens when this trend happens to pharmacy programs when the law regarding this matter is amended.

Then probably we will have good ration of doctors : Pharmacists.

Isn't it obvious. Because the law hasn't changed thats why.

If it has, then we will have lots and lots of pharmacists opening up pharmacies everywhere. And there will even more students wanting to study pharmacy.

Put some paragraphs already. Makes it easier to read. (I'm a reader and I am passing judgment regarding the paragraph issue)