[Tagging] semi pharmacies

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

sent from a phone

> On 9 May 2022, at 22:20, Timothy Noname <hervbeof at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never seen or heard of a compounding pharmacy but I believe that is the correct term. 
> As a place Chemist and Pharmacy are identical in meaning. 
> If a pharmacy doesn't have a licensed chemist and doesn't sell medication that is "prescription only" or "over the counter", then it is not a pharmacy, it is just a shop.


I would agree with this, although sale of medication regulations vary widely across legislations (e.g. in Germany any kind of “medicine” can only be sold by pharmacies, regardless of the prescription requirement). 
Regarding the Italian non-compounding “pharmacies” they are indeed selling all kind of prescription drugs, even strongly regulated stuff like opioids and similar (which have to be kept in locked closets and have specific bookkeeping requirements), they are run by pharmacists, but they aren’t (for the Italian law) pharmacies because they don’t compound (there is a different term ~dispensary or pharmaceutical dispensary). Interestingly I just found the “dispensary” term in my English dictionary and it gets translated to German as pharmacy.

As a new top level tag seems not so helpful, I think Kevin’s proposal looks best for now,
pharmacy:compounding=no
(around here, compounding pharmacies are the default)

Cheers Martin