Pharmacy Board Rejects Rule Change

[MountainLaurel]

OK, it's good they rejected it, but sad that they're going to re-do the proposal and change the language.

The Wyoming State Board of Pharmacy rejected a proposed rule Wednesday that would have allowed pharmacists to not fill prescriptions based on their personal beliefs.

Board members voted 3-0 to reject the change, but said they planned to reconsider the rule with different language at their next meeting in February.

Board members insisted they set out to protect patients by proposing the change.

The board, made up of three voting members and three ex-officio members, received more than 100 letters and listened to 15 people on Wednesday opposed to the proposal.

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/05/build/wyoming/39-pharm-ethics.inc

But this statement: Board member Randy Harrop said the intent of the proposal was to protect patients.

How are they protecting patients, exactly, by denying them medications that the pharmacists objects to solely because of his or her own personal beliefs? What a fuckwit. He needs to have his licensed stripped if he actually thinks this.

[kcass1954]

1. Newsflash to these idiots:

Do not presume for one minute that you know better than my doctor and I what's best for me. No one is asking you to administer any drug to me, only to provide it to me. If you don't want to provide the drugs that my doctor and I agree that I need to take, GET A NEW FUCKING JOB!!!

[alkaline9]

2. i agree that pharmacists MUST fill prescriptions...

...but a few more years with BushCo in office and who knows if we will be able to trust the new meds getting the rubber stamp from the FDA??? The corporate cronyism of this mis-administration will see no end... even when that means pharmaceutical companies killing Americans through new drugs (advertised like crazy on tv).

I still don't think a pharmacist knows better than a doctor though.