[OSM-talk] dispensing pharmacy considered confusing

[Greg Troxel]

Adam Schreiber <sadam at clemson.edu> writes:

>> My understanding is that dispensing=yes on a pharmacy would be a
>> pharmacy where you can get a prescription filled.
>
> Yes, but here in the US you wouldn't call anything where you couldn't
> get a prescription filled a pharmacy so the dispensing tag is
> redundant.  I think that's what he's getting at.

Exactly.  I now understand from "UK Pharmacist" that there are a
non-negligible number of places in the UK which have licensed
pharmacists who can sell an intermediate class of items between the US
"over the counter" and "prescriptions".

In the US the only item in that category is (I think) pseudoephedrine
and there are AFAIK no places that sell that without also filling
prescriptions.

So I'll update the tag description to be clearer, without changing the
intended meaning.  We just won't use amenity=pharmacy dispensing=no in
the US.
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