title: [Self medication and medical prescription].
abstract: Medical prescription particularly aims at a causal therapy whereas self-medication should be exclusively limited to symptom treatments. But, provided that the chemists informs properly the consumer, self-medication takes a prominent part within an education of the population to a reasonable use of medicine.
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D010595:Pharmacists; D010820:Physicians; D012651:Self Medication; D013557:Switzerland
vernacular_title: Selbstmedikation und ärztliche Verordnung.