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Friday, November 19, 2004


Suck up to your Pharmacist a Bit, Just in Case

Mike is in Oregan on a business trip for the weekend, so it looks like I have custody of the blog. I wouldn't want to disappoint our faithful reader (Dave), so here's a link to an article about pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control. In some states, apparently "moral grounds" are sufficient to excuse pharmacists from following scrip. I'm not a law student, but isn't the whole point of the prescription system to put the decision for who gets to use which medication in the hands of doctors and NPs? How did pharmacists get a veto over our health care? What if someone has moral objections to animal products and refuses to fill a prescription for bovine-produced insulin? Yeeshk.

2 Comment(s):

  •   Posted by Anonymous Anonymous at November 20, 2004 2:30 AM | Permanent Link to this Comment
  • it's pretty funny to think that someone working at an Eckerd could suddenly stop consenting to sell anything, and they couldn't be fired for it.

    (by the way, i'm faithful too, I just don't post much.)
    - sol

  •   Posted by Blogger Jeff'y at November 20, 2004 9:40 AM | Permanent Link to this Comment
  • Yeah, me too! It's cool how Anna's now the Zeitgeist.

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