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I get where you're coming from but pharmacists have the right to refuse to fill a prescription and in fact can be held liable for not doing so. Pharmacists are trained medical professionals and are expected to use their judgement


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epistasis11/08/2024

It's one thing to use their judgement to refuse somebody who is going to get a bad drug interaction, and another for a pharmacist to say "I've given out too many of X prescriptions, I'm going to start cutting off people from their prescription based on my judgement of them," and this latter one is what was under discussion and the one that I'm rejecting.

_moof11/08/2024

Judgment based on what? The five-second interaction we have while they're doing twenty other things thirty feet away?

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