I'm apparently not explaining myself very well or very clearly. I do not think of pharmacists as normal business owners who fill the normal role of an individual deciding he needs or wants something and coming to a store and purchasing it from a store selected for purposes of convenience or price or brand goodwill or anything else. They're not like a meat store (halal or otherwise) or a hardware store. I don't go to my pharmacist for him to make any decision or to provide any advice. I go to him because he is a middle man between my doctor and the pharmaceutical industry, and that is all I expect him to be. I expect them to discretely and efficiently provide people with the prescriptions doctors give them and nothing else. I think that it is inappropriate, given that situation, for pharmacists to decide not to provide any type of doctor prescribed drug based on personal beliefs. Ideally, I'd say toss the whole concept and let people get their drugs from doctors or pharmaceutical companies directly so we don't have to worry about nonsense like this.
I'm evidently not going to convince any of you of this, but so it goes.
Last edited by Frosstbyte; 10-27-2008 at 11:05 AM..
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