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"pro-life" pharmacist refused to fill prescribtion for life saving drug
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
If you're going to refuse people drugs because of your whackjob ideas don't work in a fucking pharmacy.
Sciences & Environment rocks my bedroom.
[FONT=Arial]Say what you mean and say it mean...[/FONT]
"Frankly if we have a revolution and you stop me eating meat, I'm going to eat you."- The inimitable Skinz.
Be careful, lest the time comes where we have to weigh you against a duck.
Thinking you can be a pharmacist, in a position of public trust where you're asked to dispense medicine prescribed by a doctor to treat a medical condition (including unwanted pregnancies or fertility), and then deny patients access on the basis of your personal bigotry, is like thinking you can be a catholic priest and preach atheism in confessionals...
...except that as a pharmacist your ideology can do people physical harm not just psychic harm.
This person should be prosecuted, immediately.
- August
If we have no business with the construction of the future or with organizing it for all time, there can still be no doubt about the task confronting us at present: the ruthless criticism of the existing order, ruthless in that it will shrink neither from its own discoveries, nor from conflict with the powers that be.
- Karl Marx
Uh, is that legal?
You seem neat, but...
They divide us by our color, they divide us by our tongue,
They divide us men and women, they divide us old and young,
But they'll tremble at our voices when they hear these verses sung,
For the Union makes us strong!
Perfect example of the idiotic Conservative state of mind: my personal moral values should be legally imposed on everyone else.
fka xx1994xx
If you mean prosecuting them, yes, it is. You'd need a good lawyer but I'm sure you could at least sue them for malpractice.
- August
If we have no business with the construction of the future or with organizing it for all time, there can still be no doubt about the task confronting us at present: the ruthless criticism of the existing order, ruthless in that it will shrink neither from its own discoveries, nor from conflict with the powers that be.
- Karl Marx
As messed up as it is, I don't think you could sue them for malpractice because pharmacist malpractice attaches only to pharmacists that have a duty to care relationship, and that occurs only once a pharmacist fills a prescription or gives some kind of medical advice - and here the pharmacist is refusing to fill the prescription. You can sue under malpractice if you get the wrong medicine or wrong dose but I don't think malpractice lawsuits apply if you don't get medicine at all...
In some states you could probably file a complaint with the board of pharmacists and get their license pulled since it would almost certainly violate pharmacist regulations - which is both cheaper than suing them, more damaging and a better protection for other patients.
But the Idaho conscience clause law is so ridiculously broad they might totally get away with it.
Anyone else find it funny a described 'pro lifer' refused somebody potentially life saving medicine?
But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on
That is one fucked up system. In Holland this could happen but the pharmasist would be obligated under the hypocrathic oath to help people in need. They are also bound by strict confidentiality laws....they can ask you what you need to medication for to assess i the doctor was correct in his prescription but you are not required to answer.
If this is violated the pharmastist could not only be expunged from his profession, he could also be liable under both civil and punative laws.
A pharmastist can only refuse medication if there is no prescription from a doctor, there is a known health problem with the medication in combination with other medication the patient is currently taking or if the medication is banned by the insurance company...in which case the patient has to pay for it themselves.
No...there is nothing funny about it...I find it saddening, infuriating and inexcusable criminal behaviour.
Interesting, I didn't know Pharmacists were required to take the Hippocratic oath.
Edit: apologies, I meant funny as in you laugh because otherwise you'd cry.
But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on
She needs to be prosecuted and have her license revoked.
I wonder if Walgreens could potentially be sued as well.
"The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome of the operation of the free market. They are on the contrary the result of well-intentioned but ill-advised government interference with the market."
—Ludwig von Mises
Yeah...I later realized that ;-)
Yes in Holland they have to take a form of the hypocratic oath. And when they violate that they can be judged by their peers and lose their practitioners license...or fined...or suspended.
