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Paternalistic
- An approach in which an authority figure undertakes to regulate the conduct of those in his/her control in matters affecting them as individuals as well as in their relations to that authority and to each other.
- characterised by practitioners making decisions with little regard to the patient's wishes.
- An authoritarian approach which is inconsistent with the practise of pharmaceutical care.
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