If a doctor gives you a perscription should the pharmasist have a choice about filling it?
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No. Not at all.
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It depends. Sometimes the pharmacist knows a good reason why you shouldn't take a medicine such as a reaction. However the pharmacist should not deny birth control pills because of his religion.
If the perscription has ingredients the pharmacy doesn't keep in stock, it's a reason to not fill the script. Otherwise, that's what a pharmacy is for - to fill perscriptions. They aren't doctors and shouldn't push their own opinions onto the public.
No. The pharmacist has no right to deny you a drug that your doctor decided that you needed to have, so he/she wrote you a prescription for it. In fact, if the pharmacist does NOT fill your prescription, then you can SUE that person for denying you the drug(s) that your doctor decided that you need.
No. Fill as written.
Pharmacists may ADVISE you about drug interactions, possible side-effects, etc., but should NOT choose to fill/refuse to fill.
They are not priests, ministers, cops, or arbiters of social morals!
If a pharmacist refuses to fill an Rx, take it somewhere else!
That would depend on the reason the pharmacist doesn't want to fill it. Yes, definitely the pharmacists job is to watch what prescriptions go to the patient. They may consult the doctor if they see something they are trained for, and required to look out for. They may not want to fill a prescription for someone they recognize as an addict, or someone they know is selling these drugs illegally after they get the prescription.
A pharmacist is far more than just filling orders. They actually are relied on by the doctor to watch what they give patients. People have negative effects of mulitiple medications and if the pharmacist catches two different doctors prescribing things that interfere or react badly with each other they will call the doctors involved and have the medications changed. So it's definitely up to the pharmacist whether or not to prescribe a medication. If it's personal, and it's a company (not a proprietor owned by the pharmacist) you could complain to a higher level, but I'd bet the pharmacist would win.
No, I think the pharmacist should fill every perscribed perscription
As a pharmacist, I would like to add that this depends primarily on the legislation of each country.
Yes, he can refuse if he has scientific evidence that the prescription contains some errors.
I fully aggree with cblrdy and I will refer my favorite example of "migril case". - Migril is the brand name for ergotamine tartrate-
According this case, a patient sue a pharmacist and a doctor, because the dosage form of the medicine that had been prescribed to him, was not adequate.The court has decided that in this case ,the responsibility for this was 55% for the doctor and 45% for the pharmacist.
I think the example talks itself.
Thank you cblrdy for the correct description of the role of the pharmacist, in dispensing medicines.
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