|
I have a hard time with situations like this. I understand people want to be pharmacists and not compromise their beliefs to do so, but, at the same time, I don't see how it is in any way a pharmacist's business to do anything but to provide the medicines prescribed by doctors to patients. It'd be like the guy at the counter of an electronics store not wanting to give you the TV you bought from the PoS with the salesman because he doesn't like the brand. Their function is not to decide who gets what kind of medicine or how much of that medicine to give someone or how to use it. Their function is purely as a middle man to package the bulk pharmaceuticals into smaller packages for individual use.
I guess when I think about it, I think that if you decide to be a pharmacist, you should have to leave your opinions at the door, unless you can provide the person with a reasonable alternative to procure their medicine. If you're the only place within 1000 miles, tough cookies. If you didn't want to provide medicine to people based on your beliefs, you should've found a different line of work.
|