The drafting of a prescription is the responsibility of doctors and certain health professionals, within the limits necessary for their professional practice: dental surgeons, midwives, physiotherapists, chiropodists, and nurses.

- Doctors have a broad right to prescription. Their ability to prescribe may, however, be limited to certain drugs whose prescription is reserved for certain specialists or hospital practitioners.

- Dentists may prescribe all medicines necessary for dentistry.

- Midwives may prescribe the medicines, medical devices, and examinations necessary for the practice of their profession, the list of which is laid down by a decree.

- Unless otherwise indicated by the doctor, masseur-physiotherapists are authorized to prescrib ... Read more »