I am a pharmacist in Texas now retired. Our State Board of Pharmacy will come down on you hard if you break the law or practice pharmacy in an unethical manner, and this is good. Oddly, if a pharmacist has a drug problem the board will do much to try and rehabilitate the pharmacist as they should. If the pharmacist is distributing and selling controlled drugs in an illegal manner, your license will be taken, probably forever.
The State Board governing physicians is not as hard on doctors, and this is bad.
I have a friend who is a doctor and the pharmacist screamed at her and said she doesn't have a medical license. (She does.) And was also arguing with her about the studies on this drug.
Another one screamed at the patient that the prescription was a party drug and it's illegal. (There is some use of this as a party drug, but it was being prescribed in a form and for the purpose the FDA had recently approved it for.)
I agree, the FDA is often wrong, but how can we have a system is the pharmacist is making these decisions on their own?
You are right about that. I know a doctor who lost privileges at two hospitals - only because he was "too honest" on the malpractice committee. He didn't have a single complaint or malpractice against him.