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Originally Posted by uncle_el
i would disagre. adding to my comments above, there is also evidence based medicine. say a patient is newly diagnosed with hypertension (high blood pressure), and the physician writes an order for a beta blocker. the pharmacist could refuse the prescription, and say that a beta blocker is not the first line treatment for newly diagnosed hypertension. that's what the pharmacist "believes", and he/she is not in the wrong.
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Then what would be the point of going to the doctor? I mean, if all we need is a pharmacist to tell us what drugs to take, why bother going to see the doctor at all? Instead of getting rid of pharmacists, let's just do away with doctors. After all, what do doctors really know anyway when compared to like....a pharmacist.
I don't mean that to be an insult to pharmacists. Well, not all pharmacists. I mean to make the point that there is also an unspoken chain of command, for lack of a better term. Doctors are higher up on the chain. Doctors prescribe things because that's what doctors do. That's their job. To diagnose and treat, but above all, do no harm. Pharmacists fill prescriptions and make sure my Viagra isn't going to react bad with my lithium.
That's their job. Not to pawn off counterside righteousness. I have no problem with a pharmacist refusing to fill a prescription because of a conflict in medication, but to refuse because he's having a little crisis of conscious?
Total idiocy.
I mean, If you start allowing everyone and their mother to refuse treatment based on, of all things, moral reservations, where does it stop?
Let's take it to the farthest reaches of extremism.
Joe thinks Jan is a slut. She dresses like a slut, she acts like a slut and is probably on her way to the bar to corrupt some poor virtuous man with promises of raunchy, dirty sex. Joe refuses to allow his taxi be used for such things and tells Jan to find another way to get to her danceclub of sin.
It'll never get that far, but once you open the door to allow denial of service based on subjective morality for the pharmacists, it'll be pretty hard to put it back in Pandora's little box.
The pharmacist has got a job. If they cannot fulfill the requirements of that job, then they should be terminated. They have a job to do. They should shut the fuck up, collect their paychecks and protest on their own time like everybody else.