The pharmacist is not an order taker. It is his job that the drugs dispensed do more good than harm to the person obtaining them. They have a professional, personal and moral obligation to dispense drugs that do not harm the person receiving them. This includes quality, quantity, frequency,contraindications with other drugs, and there knowledge of the person. They are not pill counters and they have training in chemistry that doctors generally do not have.
The pharmacist has the same moral responsibility to the patient as the doctor. Making a pharmacist participate in a treatment that he disagrees with as harming the patient is an abuse of power.
Hear here! ... But it’s more than an abuse, it is a malignant transformation of our founding principles.
Excellent response!
Few people understand that Pharmacists are Doctors of Pharmacy or “Pharm. D’s.”
If I want my pharmacist's opinion, I'll ask for it. He has neither discretion nor influence in my health care decisions - nor should he.
He is a pill-pusher, nothing more. His only job is to dispense as written unless there is obvious physician error.
I don't give a flying flip about his "religious objections." Do I have to abstain from pork just because my checkout clerk is Muslim?
Nobody is making him do anything. He can dispense the medications offered by his place of employment, or he can find a new job. It's his choice.