Dispensing The Truth: The Need to Educate Future Pharmacists to Counter Health Misinformation

Health misinformation is one of the most important challenges faced by health care professionals in the modern health care landscape. This commentary explores the mechanics of this problem, contributing factors to its prevalence and spread, and why this topic is important to the profession of pharmacy. It advocates that pharmacy curricula spend dedicated time equipping the next generation of pharmacists with skills on how to detect, handle, and prevent health misinformation.