A pharmacy system for prescribing and delivering medicaments to a patient includes at least one input unit with which a doctor is capable of entering inter alia a prescription of a medicament for a patient, together with the patient's identity, into the system. The input unit then generates a prescription signal corresponding to the prescription entered. A pharmacy computer coupled to the input unit further processes the prescription signal received from the input unit and generates a control signal corresponding to the prescription. Under the supervision of the control signal generated by the pharmacy computer, an automatic dispenser dispenses the prescribed medicament to the patient.