How Korea's split between prescribing and dispensing remade clinics, pharmacies and the drug bill

Korea's 2000 reform requiring doctors to prescribe and pharmacists to dispense reorganized the country's medical streetscape, shifted where money flows in health care and left some of its original goals only partly met.

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