Something we need to do - when it comes to light about a pharmacy

[zbdent]

which employs a pharmacist who is deciding what medications you may take (despite the prescription)

We need to put up signs around there (especially right by the parking lot entrance) which proclaim that said company/pharmacy/chain is employing a person who feels he/she is allowed to make your medical decisions for you . . . despite what your doctor says.

(Just thought of something . . . maybe Rush would have been out of trouble on the "doctor shopping" if he made an agreement with a "conscientious" pharmacist - "Hey, could you fill this Oxycontin prescrip?" - "No sir." (wink wink) "We cannot fill this prescription." (wink wink) - "Oh well, here's a few bucks for your trouble, my good Christian friend.")

[Deja Q]

1. WTF?

Is this in reference to the reich-wing loonies that won't prescribe drugs used for birth control or are there other stories of recent that are even more enraging?

(birth control meds can be used for means other than birth control...)

[zbdent]

7. Yes

[dogday]

2. Put pressure on the store that

employs the Pharmacist. They will bend if enough people complain. It is all about the mighty buck with them.....

[WhatHappenedToTheGOP]

4. Agree with dogday

Taking away profits by refusing to do business with them will get their attention.

[Warpy]

15. WRITE A LETTER!!!

Write the state pharmacy licensing board about these wack jobs who think they can practise medicine without a license. The only thing that will rein these bastards in is threatening their licenses.

[eternalburn]

3. How about a website listing "fully operational pharmacies" nationwide?

...as opposed to those who cannot provide complete services to their customers.

[Tux]

5. How about

A Web site that people can list those pharmacies and start a national boycott of that foolishness?

[eternalburn]

6. How about both or a combo of the two on one site? (nt)

[MountainLaurel]

12. Excellent, excellent ideas!

:applause:

[Sugarbleus]

8. I was using a corporate pharmacy until they refused to fill a

RX for an anti-depressant...No, not opiates mind you. They said my MD wasn't allowed to prescribe the type of meds I needed; they could only be written by a different type of physcian. :wow:

I took the damn thing to a "local" pharmacy where people are still friendly and will bring your stuff to your home if need be...they FILLED it and did all the paperwork..no questions asked. Yesssssssss

How rare that is.

[kineneb]

9. What jerks!

Any MD can prescribe antidepressants - a Shrink has to be a MD to write the RX! I should know, I have had both my Shrink and my MD give me a prescription for the same medication (not overlapping, like Rush).

[Sugarbleus]

11. I waited in line with no place to sit down (painful arthritis here)

only to have this meathead pharmacist tell me what he did. Another issue is I was using Medicaid so oft times there has to be a special request made to Medicaid saying I really need this med. That takes time and corp pharmacies don't want to bother with it.

If I remember correctly, the medicine was actually clonopin/clonazepam (to be USED WITH my anti-depressant)..it was that med they said my MD couldn't legally fill. Wal-greens pharmacy said: 'the medicine was a psych. drug and could only be written by a shrink'... *shaking head here*

I too spoke with my shrink and he said the druggist was ridiculous also. He said all docs of all stripes went through medical school and are equally able to prescribe whatever is needed. Period. Thanks for reminding me of this.

We've also had problems with corp drugstores that won't honor a particular MD's RX AT ALL; for whatever reason.

I stay away from Longs, Walgreens, thrifty/Rite Aid, and Drug Emporium. West coast here.

[NMMNG]

10. As for me

I'll never need BC for birth control, but I needed ortho-evra briefly last year for an estrogen imbalance. If the need ever arises again and anyone at my pharmacy gets all high and mighty on me I'm not going to argue with them. I'll leave, go to another pharmacy and transfer all of my prescriptions (worth hundreds per month) there. I'll also tell everybody I know about their fascist policies so people will be able to avoid them.

[Sgent]

13. Unreal

your family physician can legally perform your next facial reconstruction or brain surgery. He'd be an idiot to, and no hospital would let him, but legally a doctor is a doctor is a doctor.

It is possible that insurance companies may require consultation with a specialist (that they be involved), but its not a legal requirement. Family docs perscribe psychotropics all the time -- whether its for ADD/ADHD, emergency med mgmt until the patient can see their p-doc, maintenance medication (p-doc gets patient stable and hands of monitoring to fmaily doc), etc.

In some ways they are probably a better option than p-docs, espcially when it comes to managing all your medication. If your on lithium, or other high interaction meds (warafin, etc.) whomever writes your scripts has to have a very definate idea of each drug and how the interact. Since p-docs don't normally use NSAIDS, Anti-coagulants, Blood pressure meds, etc. in their practice, they may not have as much knowledge as the range of options.

[TaleWgnDg]

14. Go for it . . . grassroots organize !

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