almost weekly we are hearing more stories of pharmacists using one of 40 excuses that twitter is giving us. pharmacists have a duty and a right to interfere with prescriptive instructions and stop any prescription for cause, AKA not out of their own prejudge and fears. the courts have ruled that pharmacists can not refuse to fill because of moral beliefs. And that needs to include any phone reasons not based on a reason that finding Broadway covers picking out pain medicines to sabotage. This is raw discrimination and depriving somebody of needed prescription drugs is more than cruel.
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“courts have ruled that pharmacists can not refuse to fill because of moral beliefs”
Anybody got citations on this? I’m finding totally contradictory news articles. Apparently Washington nixed the “beliefs refusal” for Rx’s, but that leaves 49 other states….where?
A 2018 article sez:
“The Atlantic published an article in January 2018 noting, “The Trump administration is making it easier for medical providers to object to procedures on religious grounds.” The author noted an HHS proposed rule that would require hospitals and doctor’s offices to post notices of protections against religious discrimination on their job applications and employee manuals, and it would allow HHS to enforce protections for religious medical providers.4” (https://www.drugtopics.com/legal-news/refusal-fill-prescriptions-under-conscience-clauses)
Of course, this is the same publication that insists “There is an urgent need for the US healthcare system to adopt a coordinated, evidence-based framework to reduce the over-prescription of opioids post-surgery, say the authors of a new literature review. After being prescribed opioids after surgery, SOME PATIENTS [emphasis mine; yeah, less than 1%] convert to chronic opioid use or experience adverse events.”
Great. Let’s give more folks advil after they have a leg amputated, or liver transplant, or whatever. And they didn’t even give a citation for the “literature review!”
Steve, can you contact these lunatics? There’s no comment option that I can find.