Posted on 08/16/2020 4:53:11 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
State Sen. Scott Jensen, a medical doctor, reports that pharmacists won’t fill hydroxychloroquine prescriptions for patients battling coronavirus.
Gov. Tim Walz has rescinded his March Executive Order 20-23, which effectively barred pharmacists from filling hydroxychloroquine prescriptions written to treat COVID-19. Despite this, Jensen says that pharmacists he’s contacted still won’t fill hydroxychloroquine prescriptions for patients suffering from the virus.
“I got on the phone and called pharmacists and said ‘if I write this hydroxychloroquine [prescription] will you fill it?’ And I was told no,” Jensen explained in a video he posted to Twitter on Friday.
“I said, ‘you’ve been filling my scripts for decades and decades and now you say no, why?’” the senator continued, further describing his conversation with pharmacists.
“It was clear that they [the pharmacists] were fearful, but what they said was ‘well it might set a precedent, the board might not like it, maybe we’ll run out,’” he said.
Alpha News was not able to independently verify Jensen’s claim that pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions written for hydroxychloroquine. However, he does not seem to be alone — doctors in other areas have also been denied the ability to use the drug.
A hospital in Michigan was told that it could not use hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus patients in its care, according to local media.
Although hydroxychloroquine has not been officially approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat COVID-19, Jensen and many others stand behind its “off label” use to treat the virus.
When doctors prescribe a drug to treat a condition that it was not specifically approved by the FDA to remedy, that prescription is considered off label. Up to one in five prescriptions are written for off-label purposes, according to the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics.
A physician can order and store a supply of HCQ for treating his patients. This would by-pass the murder agenda.
I am a pharmacist retired now. I assure you it is not the pharmacist that is the problem. It is the corporate leaders of the chain pharmacies in which the problem is.
I lasted one year in retail pharmacy hated and quit it. The rest of my career was in hospital pharmacy, loved it.
The pharmacist? On what basis?
Meds are used off label a lot.
I am a pharmacist retired now. I assure you it is not the pharmacist that is the problem. It is the corporate leaders of the chain pharmacies in which the problem is.
I lasted one year in retail pharmacy hated and quit it. The rest of my career was in hospital pharmacy, loved it.
I am a former Minnesota resident.
While in Minnesota, due to the size of my heart, I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure.
I was racing bicycles at the time. The common doctrine was people over 50 were not supposed to be that active.
I do not recognize ANY professional license issued by the State of Minnesota.
Sounds like they are building lawsuits against the politicians there. I think they have a strong case against the politicians. A drug that would have possibly helped was deliberately withheld because Donald Trump put it forward.
If the pharmacist refused my legitimate prescription I would bring the virus to him personally. I would like to see what he does when it’s his ass on the line. I’m pretty sure he can take the pills out of the bottle without having to worry about getting in trouble. It’s not a schedule 2 narcotic.
As a prophylactic I am taking quercetin, zinc, d3, C and washing them down with Tonic water.
Quite a few State Boards of Medicine and/or Pharmacy are limiting or even prohibiting HCQ in unheard of ways. ‘Tis Deep States run amuck. They possess the power to put you out of business if they want so can’t be ignored.
Me too...been taking all but the quercetin and tonic water for well over a year / before this...so hoping this all together will be of some value...these pharmacist and docs who won’t prescribe needed after or as a prophylactic should be shoot for not providing the health care of a patient in in need! It is in their oath! It won’t be pretty if I or my family in NC gets in the situation and ASSHOLE KING COOPERS EDICTS get in the way of life!
I do not wear a mask unless I go into a store that requires it. I don’t social distance unless the person near me acts as if I have leprosy. I attend church at least 3 times a week and don’t wear a mask.
I play in the worship band at our church and we all sing without covering our mouths. No one in our church has even tested positive.
This disease is not nearly as dangerous as people think and the HCQ protocol would save thousands of lives if everyone was on it.
I do what I can but I’m done hiding from the disease. It’s going to find me eventually. Most likely, unless I get tested, I won’t know I had it or that I was even exposed to it.
It’s time to get back to normal. Fear is what the liberals are praying to Moloch to give America until the election. I’m not giving in to it. I’m living my life in the normal lane.
If you happen to get covid and your pharmacy won’t fill the prescription to cure it, take 4 oz tonic water and 50-100 mg zinc as soon as you can. The doctor I watched said take that once a day, but if you don’t start feeling better within a couple of days, I’d up the dosage. If you get a secondary respiratory infection, get a prescription for a z-pac.
So now the intimidation/pressure is there but the proof of pressure is being concealed. I bet there's a new database and the pharmacists have to promise not to share its information.
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Posted on 5/15/2020, 10:48:53 AM by ransomnote
A pharmacist refusing to fill a prescription that is for a
legal medication, is in effect taking on the role of an
M. D. It’s not his place to place judgement on an off
label use. It could be seen as malpractice.
If the case could be made that others lived, but the person
who was refused this medication died, the pharmacist could
lose his license.
He could also be liable for a massive civil judgement against
him.
It may also be seen as negligent homicide by a jury.
This wholesale refusal by pharmacists, of a drug that is
being recognized around the world as a valid and effective
treatment for COVID-19, is a very bad idea.
If I lived in Minnesota and had a prescription for hydroxychloroquine, I guarantee you they’d fill it.
It’s really very simple. Just need them to understand that not filling it would be legally far, far more painful than not filling it.
Tonic water has tons of added sugar, bad for the immune system. Im looking for a brand with low or no sugar.
Then the doctor can be charged and prosecuted....when it’s those who make the decisions to withhold the potentially life-saving drug from patients.
If the pharmacists aren’t raising hell about being unable to serve their customers, those pharmacists are part of the problem.
Polar does a diet tonic water.
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