You mean how many are willing to risk the deaths of themselves and their families at the hands of “pro-life” terrorists?
And how do you feel about a doctor that refuses to perform abortions for moral reasons?
A bad situation, but your problem-solving skills then and your derogatory ethnic comments now do not serve you well.
As for the OP, I seriously doubt my pharmacist colleagues will want to diagnose and treat patients in any significant numbers. I’m confident they’ll leave that to me. Meanwhile, they’ll help keep my prescriptions appropriate and legal, which is invaluable, given the current glut of new regulations and increasing numbers of interactions among more and more complex and new drugs.
Women wishing to terminate a pregnancy don’t just knock on a random MD’s door & ask to be aborted. In fact, it’s hard to get an OB consult in a timely fashion for many ladies who want to have the kid. To get an abortion, one needs to go to a clinic or PP or a specific MD who does pregnancy termination.
In fact, I’d suggest your hypothetical moral MD go into a field that doesn’t involve women of childbearing age. Not every pregnancy is safe for the mother; not every baby will be capable of living a worthwhile life. (Google Birth Deformity Images & get back to me.)
A person ought to be able to fill a legal prescription at any pharmacy. Dispensing controlled substances requires extra vigilence on the part of the PharmD. Might there be a physician error? Sure, make a call to the MD.
Any pharmacist wishing to play moralist with his job needs to post a sign indicating the fact–on the front door of the pharmacy. As a warning to women in need. And to those of us NOT in need, so we’ll know to take our business elsewhere. Even if we’re just buying vitamins…
This is totally inappropriate for this forum - or any other, really, although if you post it in the Pit, people will at least be able to respond in kind. I’m giving you a formal warning here. Don’t do this again.
Going back to the OP, such as it is, how is this supposed to work?
- Patient sees doctor.
- Doctor renders diagnosis. Writes it on… a diagnosis pad?
- Patient takes diagnosis “script” to pharmacy.
- Pharmacist writes prescription for Medicine X.
- Pharmacist dispenses prescription.
Okay, so assuming everything goes according to plan, that’s fine. But… what happens if the original diagnosis is incorrect? Is the pharmacist going to dispense a different drug because the first one didn’t work? Presumably it will still be for the originally diagnosed condition.
Yes, doctors are not infallible. They make mistakes. It happens. That is why people get second-opinions and third-opinions, etc.
Sometimes, doctors even prescribe the wrong medication. It happens. Also, sometimes the medication doesn’t work and the doctor needs to prescribe a new medication.
Also, pharmacists do not write prescriptions, doctors write prescriptions and pharmacists fill the prescriptions.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/02/16/ohio-university-forefront-drug-rd/
This is where drugs are developed. This s\article just mentions a few universities that are involved in drug research. There are schools across the country working on medical discoveries.
Thanks, pal. Perhaps you should read the thread and try again.
That they are woman hating scum and have nothing that I would consider a valid “morality”. I wouldn’t trust such a doctor under any circumstances; that’s the sort of doctor who’d likely deliberately misdiagnose people just to punish them for their “immorality”..