Posted on 11/09/2004 8:23:53 AM PST by Michael Goldsberry
Edited on 11/09/2004 8:39:31 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
This is just wrong. If the pharmacist does not OWN the pharmacy they have 2 choices. Quit, or dispense drugs as the owner sees fit.
Pharmacists job is to fill the Prescription, not to moralize or judge.
I wonder if that same druggist sells condoms and Viagra????
I agree. This is really thin ice, and will NOT help the pro-life movement, only hurt it.
Sounds like simple theft to me.
Not exactly a Christian virtue.
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I sure hope that my pharmacist doesn't become a Christian Scientist.
Consider this pharmacist's choices when he had the woman's prescription in his hands. Obviously, if he gave it back to her, she'd just have it filled somewhere else. Now they're punishing him for not giving it back to her!
They’re in the wrong business or they need to start their own.
It's this kind of thing that gives credence to the leftists' aguement the right is a bunch of conservative freaks. Very embarassing to me, a conservative Republican if there ever was one.
Uh, no offense, but IT'S HER PROPERTY, not his.
Doctors job is to kill unborn babies, not to moralize or judge.
What is your point? That he has a right to decide whether or not this woman may or may not use birth control? It wasn't his prescription. If he doesn't want to fill it, what right does he have to keep it? Bizarre.
correct. also the MD should have weighed in with the board of pharmacy and recommended suspension of licensure until this oaf pharmacist learned not to practice medicine.
Well, I guess I would defend the right of a businessman to only trade in products he approved of. On the other hand though, he would lose my business and if he refused to hand me back my prescription slip after I gave it to him I'd beat the s--t out of him. People's health depends on their prescriptions being filled and a pharmacist who refuses to return a prescription so that the customer can get it filled elsewhere should be criminally liable. Many women are on birth control pills for health reasons other than birth control.
But he has to give it back to her. He can refuse to fill the script, but he cannot refuse her the right to go elsewhere to have it filled. These are birth control pills.
"Now they're punishing him for not giving it back to her!"
As they should. His job isn't to legislate his version of morality - it's to dispense pharmaceuticals.
He should be fired.
Missing a single pill because of a pharmacist is no worse than missing a pill because you forgot one on your own. It's also not as bad as being on certain antibiotics. It's just another excuse for a lawyer to sue.
Fine. The pharmacist is no one's slave. If his customers don't like the services he offers, they can choose another pharmacist.
In Madison, Wis., a pharmacist faces possible disciplinary action by the state pharmacy board for refusing to transfer a woman's prescription for birth-control pills to another druggist or to give the slip back to her.
Um, that's called stealing. Stealing is moral????
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