Obstruction of Medical Care Should be a Crime

[mondo joe]

Poll question: Obstruction of Medical Care Should be a Crime

Refusing to provide legal, prescribed stocked medication for any reason other than the health of te patient (such as moral objection) should be a crime.

Pharmacies are not simply commercial endeavors. They are not hardware stores or cafes. They are LICENSED to provide access to regulated materials and are a critical link in the ability of any citizen to access essential medical care.

How is it we can say no cafe or theater has the right to refuse their relatively insignificant service to customers based on race, but a pharmacist can refuse to provide a legal prescribed medication to which they control access??

Would those who support "conscientious objection" to filling a birth control prescription support the same right for a pharmacist to deny an AIDS medication based on moral grounds? Or pharmacist to deny fertility prescriptions to a mixed race couple because he is morally opposed to mixing races?

This is fucking bullshit.

No one should have to do anything they are morally opposed to -- but no one is forced to be a pharmacist. If you have a moral objection, do the moral thing and quit the job.

How can only one of these be illegal:

[havocmom]

1. Charge any pharmacist who refuses to fill a legal prescription,

for any reason other than preventing a medical mistake, with practicing medicine without a license.


Same goes with jailers who think their values can be forced on women who have been raped.

And cops who deny medical care to women having miscarriages.

This institutional war on women must stop NOW

[mondo joe]

2. Oh I do like that. Good idea.

[Little Wing]

3. These PharmaPhacists should be deported

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Yes, it should be a crime and the pharmacist should immediately lose their license.

Forever.

Either dole out the medicine that you are told to dole out, or go into another fucking profession, like televangelism or shooting abortion doctors or other hate-based "moral-based" work. You stupid fucks.

Fucking shitwipes knew going into pharmacy school what they were getting into.

And any pharmacist who refuses to fill a prescription AND refuses to transfer that prescription to a pharmacist with a soul, should be fined, lose his/her license, and be required to give their assets to an orphanage and/or abortion clinic for poor women.

[eggplant]

5. Why people never focus on pharmacist's self imposed obligations, I never understand

http://www.uspharmd.com/rxcode.htm

III. A pharmacist respects the autonomy and dignity of each patient.

A pharmacist promotes the right of self-determination andrecognizes individual self-worth by encouraging patients to participate in decisions about their health. A pharmacist communicates with patients in terms that are understandable. In all cases, a pharmacist respects personal and cultural differencesamong patients.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. When they deny prescribed medications they are obviously

NOT respecting personal and cultural differences.

So what are you saying?

[Rosemary2205]

7. that they should lose their license. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Oh. I get it. Eggplant was referring to the dissenting pharmacists

as 'people', which naturally threw me off.

Rather like Scrooge being referred to as 'not a bear', it leads one astray.

[mondo joe]

8. It's not even just section III. Section I would cover it also.

[Selatius]

10. Should HMOs dictate to you what medicines you are not allowed to take?

Would that fall under this poll?

Edit: Actually, scratch that. People are usually allowed to take whatever medicines or medical treatment they want or need. The issue is sometimes the HMO won't help you pay for it. It's not the same as an explicit prohibition on a certain drug or treatment, but sometimes it almost feels like one.

[mondo joe]

11. What, no opposition yet? No outlandish arguments that pharmacies are just like cabs?

Hmp.

[Annces]

12. I agree

Of course medicine should be taken care of by our government who we give our money to in the first place, and there should be plentiful clinics for people to get what they need, and not go through a for-profit business.