Published on March 23, 2025

There are some buts here:

1. Pharmacists manufacture the "medicines" (drugs), not the doctors who have no idea how they are produced;
2. There are places where there are no doctors and pharmacists have to treat the population without image, laboratory, and ICU structures, without which today's doctors don't have the courage or don't know how to "practice medicine";
3. Doctors only go where there is money, there is a minimum health structure and there is comfort. They don't go to riverside regions and slums, or even to small towns without structure;
4. If there were at least one doctor in every corner of this country of continental dimensions, the Federal Council of Medicine would even have some reason and right to plead, but as long as the absence of doctors in ALL of Brazil is not resolved, there is no way to prevent the pharmacist, the drug professional by legal definition, from prescribing them.

Another fact that must be made clear is that in most of these villages there are no doctors, pharmacists, nurses or even a nursing assistant, and there may be someone with some experience as a pharmacy clerk who does everything, even deliveries and sutures. The Federal Council of Medicine does not take this into account and even omits it in its judicial representation. Read here