Pope Benedict XVI spoke to a convention of Catholic Pharmacists and told them they have a right not to dispense morning-after pills and medicines they think will be used for euthanasia.
You already know my views on the Pope and what he can do with his so called “teachings” or “Holy Pronouncements”, I think he can put them where the sun don’t shine – ever! But I am being juvenile.
First, pharmacies and pharmacists are here to FILL prescriptions ordered by doctors – period. I know they go to school for five (5) years and all that but it is a waste of their education and they know it and they are frustrated by it. They went to school all those years, have all this knowledge and all they do is “dispense” pills; no one ever asks them about anything.
The pharmacy computer is supposed to alert the pharmacist or pharmacy tech to any “interaction” between the medicines they are dispensing so the question arises – who needs a pharmacist? Many hospitals now have robotic pharmacists all are computer - controlled and the medicines bar-coded.
So my point is that the pharmacist does a robot’s job in dispensing medication and is not permitted to make moral judgments as to what medication a physician has ordered for his patient – it’s none of his god-damn business. If the pharmacist cannot carry out his simple duty he needs to be fired – end of story.
Now that I have gotten that out of my system let me tell you calmly what others do about this situation. Some respect a conscientious objection some may have in dispensing certain “prescribed” medications. At time like these some pharmacies have the “step aside” provision allowing the pharmacist to step aside and allow someone else to fill the objectionable medication. In all circumstances, the prescription has to be filled so if the pharmacist that objects is the only one in the pharmacy at that time he MUST fill the prescription – fair enough?
As to old Benedict, does he have a right to call for such, in some cases, illegal action? Well, I don’t think so and I wish people would tell him just to shut up. In fact, I wish the Italian government would arrest his ass for “inciting people to break the law” cause in Italy it is against the law NOT to fill a prescribed prescription medication.
You already know my views on the Pope and what he can do with his so called “teachings” or “Holy Pronouncements”, I think he can put them where the sun don’t shine – ever! But I am being juvenile.
First, pharmacies and pharmacists are here to FILL prescriptions ordered by doctors – period. I know they go to school for five (5) years and all that but it is a waste of their education and they know it and they are frustrated by it. They went to school all those years, have all this knowledge and all they do is “dispense” pills; no one ever asks them about anything.
The pharmacy computer is supposed to alert the pharmacist or pharmacy tech to any “interaction” between the medicines they are dispensing so the question arises – who needs a pharmacist? Many hospitals now have robotic pharmacists all are computer - controlled and the medicines bar-coded.
So my point is that the pharmacist does a robot’s job in dispensing medication and is not permitted to make moral judgments as to what medication a physician has ordered for his patient – it’s none of his god-damn business. If the pharmacist cannot carry out his simple duty he needs to be fired – end of story.
Now that I have gotten that out of my system let me tell you calmly what others do about this situation. Some respect a conscientious objection some may have in dispensing certain “prescribed” medications. At time like these some pharmacies have the “step aside” provision allowing the pharmacist to step aside and allow someone else to fill the objectionable medication. In all circumstances, the prescription has to be filled so if the pharmacist that objects is the only one in the pharmacy at that time he MUST fill the prescription – fair enough?
As to old Benedict, does he have a right to call for such, in some cases, illegal action? Well, I don’t think so and I wish people would tell him just to shut up. In fact, I wish the Italian government would arrest his ass for “inciting people to break the law” cause in Italy it is against the law NOT to fill a prescribed prescription medication.
More hate filled anti-Catholic comments by a bigoted writer.
ReplyDeleteNice Jan, real nice.