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Originally Posted by kutulu
I'll just comment on the perscription issue. No f-in way.
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Yes fuckin way, unfortunately.
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It may not be an inconvenience in the city to go somewhere else but there are plenty of cities where there is only one place to get your meds. It's wrong to make someone drive 50 miles to get their meds.
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Certainly it's wrong, though not to them, but "wrong" is not the same thing as "illegal".
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If you want to sell perscription medication, you need to sell everything the doctors write perscriptions for.
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Actually, that's not at all the case, and that would be a very dangerous thing to do.
To begin with, if the pharmacist detects a negative consequence or reaction of taking a particular medication, either in conjunction with another or based on the patient's unique health situations, they are bound by their license NOT to dispense the medication, pending verification with the prescribing doctor. Pharmacists do not just sit and hand out every drug for which they're given a prescription. You wouldn't believe how often a doctor will write a precription for medication X when the patient is allergic to that medication. If the pharmacy knows, the doctor should have that information as well- sometimes, they do not (there are a variety of reasons for this which I won't waste time explaining).
Secondly, and more to the point, pharmacists are allowed to refuse to fill a prescription based on moral conflict. That means they can refuse birth control, the "morning after" pill (PlanB), whatever they want, on the grounds of
moral objection.
No, this is not a perfect scenario, but consider this point- to some people, any birth control is morally wrong. Therefore, you'd be forcing a pharmacist to violate their beliefs to fill your prescription. To some people, the "morning after" pill may as well be an abortion, and they object to that as well.
This is a matter of rights. For one, protecting the rights of the pharmacist to not be forced to violate their moral code to serve another. Does it suck? Sure. The flip side of that rights-coin is that the patient has the right to their prescription being returned, if such a refusal is made, or given to another pharmacist on staff who IS willing to fill it, OR if no pharmacist on premises will fill it, there must be another place to fill it or they can be compelled to fill it. I can't remember how far away "another place" can be, but it's a distance. I've heard of people driving 2 hours to fill birth control. When I say "compelled to fill it", I don't mean by you- you'd have to file a report against the pharmacist with the state medical board to effect that change, if at all.