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Pharmacist Knows Best? Enacting Legislation in Oklahoma Prohibiting Pharmacists from Refusing to Provide Emergency Contraceptives

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Title: Pharmacist Knows Best? Enacting Legislation in Oklahoma Prohibiting Pharmacists from Refusing to Provide Emergency Contraceptives
Author : Issues in Law & Medicine
Release Date : January 22, 2008
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,Health, Mind & Body,Health & Fitness,
Pages : * pages
Size : 74 KB

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Misty Cooper Watt, Pharmacist Knows Best? Enacting Legislation in Oklahoma Prohibiting Pharmacists from Refusing to Provide Emergency Contraceptives, 42 TULSA L. REV. 771 (2007). Since the FDA made emergency contraceptives available over-but-behind the pharmacist counter, physicians have been excluded from the decision of whether a patient should receive emergency contraceptives. However, prescriptions are still required to receive emergency contraceptives for women under the age of eighteen. In such instances, physicians, rather than pharmacists, should be the gatekeepers of prescription medications. The traditional role of physicians, as far as prescriptions are concerned, is to be the prescriber. The physician diagnoses what medication the patient needs and writes a prescription. The pharmacist, on the other hand, is the dispenser. The pharmacist fills the prescription and gives it to the patient with very few exceptions. When pharmacists decide not to fill valid, legal prescriptions without a solid basis such as drug interactions, they take themselves out of the role of dispenser and put themselves in the role of physician. This presents major problems because the professions are meant to be separate and pharmacists are not in a position to overstep the decisions made by physicians. Pharmacists have different relationships with their customers than those between physicians and their patients. Likewise, pharmacists are trained and regulated only to be dispensers of medications.