On one hand I think that in general it's probably a bad idea to pressure doctors to do something they don't want to do . . . On the other hand, I have no sympathy whatsoever for the pharmacists.
I think there needs to be some balance of patient and doctor rights. Someone who's doing a job they dislike is going to muck it up (see me and the damn committee work I'm hating on right now); on the other hand, it's not your job to pass judgment on your patients. I think some sort of "I won't do this procedure, but [Dr. Other Guy] will" might be in order. However, for someone living in Middle of Nowhere South Dakota, Dr. Other Guy might be a 300 mile drive. Yay urban life with diverse treatment options?
Dude, your job is to dispense drugs, not to judge whether you should withhold them or not. I don't want you asking me questions about my thyroid medication either. Period.
I'm really waiting for some unintended consequences to rear up on this one. "I'm a pastafarian, mixing thyroid meds and antibiotics is against my religion" or whatever. I think this is the sort of executive order that is really poorly thought out in the worst way.
Consistency isn't something I'm going to cop to either: I'm reacting from my gut on this one, and my gut is saying O HAI NO most emphatically.
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Date: 2008-12-20 01:06 am (UTC)I think there needs to be some balance of patient and doctor rights. Someone who's doing a job they dislike is going to muck it up (see me and the damn committee work I'm hating on right now); on the other hand, it's not your job to pass judgment on your patients. I think some sort of "I won't do this procedure, but [Dr. Other Guy] will" might be in order. However, for someone living in Middle of Nowhere South Dakota, Dr. Other Guy might be a 300 mile drive. Yay urban life with diverse treatment options?
Dude, your job is to dispense drugs, not to judge whether you should withhold them or not. I don't want you asking me questions about my thyroid medication either. Period.
I'm really waiting for some unintended consequences to rear up on this one. "I'm a pastafarian, mixing thyroid meds and antibiotics is against my religion" or whatever. I think this is the sort of executive order that is really poorly thought out in the worst way.
Consistency isn't something I'm going to cop to either: I'm reacting from my gut on this one, and my gut is saying O HAI NO most emphatically.