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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Nope, still isn't your business. Because it isn't the pharmacist's responsibility to take care of every last person with a medical need. The pharmacist's responsibility is to do an adequate job of taking care of those people that s/he chooses to take on.
That's the problem with a 'right' to medical care: it inevitably intrudes upon property rights in unjust ways. 'Need' != 'right'.
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To quote the Dude, "That's just, like, your opinion, man."
I think ktsp really said it well. I don't think pharmacists are "just another business owner." I think they have a unique duty to individuals who come in with prescriptions, and that duty is to fill the prescription given by a doctor to the patient. They don't get to decide to give more or less or a different medicine. Their job is to enable patients to receive the medicine they're prescribed. That's not a "right" to medical care, that's simply the definition of a pharmacy. If someone has a problem with that, I think he has found himself in the wrong field.