reasons to love my town #37

[lagilman]

I just walked down to pick up my monthly dose of various and sundry pills (that's reason #9, that I can walk to pretty much everything), and the pharmacy counter has a small handwritten sign by the cash register:

"We will fill any prescription."

This may seem like a no-brainer... until you remember that there's a spate of pharmacists in the U.S. deciding to impose their personal views on other people by refusing to fill contraceptive prescriptions.

Under words I never though I'd hear myself say: I love my local CVS.

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Good for them!

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

CVS is my favorite chain pharmacy. Yay CVS!

[divanoir.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah.

Damn. What the hell is going on in this country? Didn't we used to send federal aid to countries for this kind of thing? Now it looks like Canada may someday have to do it for us.

What year is this? Argh!

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

The other possibility is that they're telling people they stock painkillers. Some pharmacies have stopped stocking the most heavy-duty painkillers for fear of (A) burglary and (B) massive paperwork.

[lagilman]

Possible, but unlikely. This had the look of an unofficial comment by the staff, not an Official Notice.

[kalligraphy.livejournal.com]

Pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, doctor offices, etc, lose drugs all the time. In fact it is kind of scary to see how many drugs vanish on a regular basis. The actual paperwork they have to fill out is not that painful, and is available online. I should know, I run the website. :)

[kalligraphy.livejournal.com]

I am truly appalled at what the religious right has done when they gave doctors and phamacists the right to refuse to service patients on the basis of religious conviction. I'm sorry, a patient in need is supposed to get treatment, not moralistic judgements. What is even worse, is when the pharmacist so inclined to deny birth control to someone, then decides to not give the prescription back to the patient. This in turn requires them to go through the hassle of getting a new scrip. This is unacceptable at all levels.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Bizarrely, given the religious implications in all this, my uncle used to run a pharmacy in Swansea and the only trouble he ever had was in being raided and tied up by a couple of heroin addicts - who turned out to be theology students. This was in another country, though. No, I don't think they are now ministering to souls.

Liz

[divanoir.livejournal.com]

This sounds a like it could be a sequel to a pedro almodovar movie I watched the other night called "Dark Habits".

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I discovered this week that good pharmacists are to be cherished--mine added an additional order for the same script into a previous (1 day prior) so I didn't have to pay the entire hit, because it was essentially the same script.

I'd send everyone to that place. The thing to remember here is, we've been here before--the Pilgrims, 10% of the population, exerted a LOT of control over the New England colonies.

Fight now, or be controlled later. Encourage friends to vote!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

What is even worse, is when the pharmacist so inclined to deny birth control to someone, then decides to not give the prescription back to the patient. This in turn requires them to go through the hassle of getting a new scrip. This is unacceptable at all levels

That is theft, and I would be massively amused if someone prosecuted them on that charge.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

>This sounds a like it could be a sequel to a pedro almodovar movie I watched the other night called "Dark Habits".

If he'd been tied up by nuns I'd have been very concerned...

[paleologa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I love your town, too.