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if your doctor prescribes it to you and you have doubts about it, ask the doctor for clarification. pharmacies should not be refusing to fill a prescription, u

by spinny 5y ago

if your doctor prescribes it to you and you have doubts about it, ask the doctor for clarification. pharmacies should not be refusing to fill a prescription, unless there is a doubt around the authenticity of the prescription (and the pharmacy probably has a procedure to report it). if it's possible to file some sort of complaint, that definitely should be done. the people at the pharmacy don't know more about your health than your doctor.

lurquer 5y ago
File a complaint? What good is that? Every day that passes is vital when you have a fever and are getting increasingly ill by the hour. If only ivermectin was available without a prescription...
- spinny 5y ago
  > If only ivermectin was available without a prescription... please don't. if it needs a prescription, probably there is a reason for it
  - lurquer 5y ago
    Odd how HN is replete with posts and articles about the supposed therapeutic effects of pot, LSD, and shrooms... but, bemoan the use of any medicine not approved by Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, or Anderson Cooper.
sveiss 5y ago
A pharmacist’s professional role is as an expert on medication, and their scope of practice includes refusing to fill therapeutically inappropriate prescriptions. Normally this serves to catch dosing errors or drug interactions, but it’s also a safety net for other inappropriate prescriptions. We don’t put pharmacists through 8 years of post-secondary education to blindly fill whatever a physician writes for. In the US, the requirement for pharmacists to police prescriptions even goes as far as criminal liability for dispensing inappropriately prescribed controlled substances (see: “corresponding responsibility”). Choosing to dispense, or not dispense ivermectin isn’t going to rise to that level, but no state Board of Pharmacy is going to take action against a pharmacist who judges that ivermectin is inappropriate for a COVID diagnosis.

by spinny 5y ago

lurquer 5y ago

File a complaint? What good is that? Every day that passes is vital when you have a fever and are getting increasingly ill by the hour. If only ivermectin was available without a prescription...

spinny 5y ago
> If only ivermectin was available without a prescription... please don't. if it needs a prescription, probably there is a reason for it
- lurquer 5y ago
  Odd how HN is replete with posts and articles about the supposed therapeutic effects of pot, LSD, and shrooms... but, bemoan the use of any medicine not approved by Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, or Anderson Cooper.

sveiss 5y ago

A pharmacist’s professional role is as an expert on medication, and their scope of practice includes refusing to fill therapeutically inappropriate prescriptions. Normally this serves to catch dosing errors or drug interactions, but it’s also a safety net for other inappropriate prescriptions. We don’t put pharmacists through 8 years of post-secondary education to blindly fill whatever a physician writes for. In the US, the requirement for pharmacists to police prescriptions even goes as far as criminal liability for dispensing inappropriately prescribed controlled substances (see: “corresponding responsibility”). Choosing to dispense, or not dispense ivermectin isn’t going to rise to that level, but no state Board of Pharmacy is going to take action against a pharmacist who judges that ivermectin is inappropriate for a COVID diagnosis.