Mad Pharmacist Disease crosses the pond to Britain
They gave us Mad Cow Disease; now we’re giving them Mad Pharmacist Disease.
Witchy limns this shocking news item from South Yorkshire:
In short: on advice from her GP, woman goes to local chemist for morning after pill (EC). Pharmacist declines to supply said medication because “it was against his religious beliefs” and refers woman back to her GP, so wasting valuable time (evidence BB).
Holy fuck. As Witchy says, that’s…that’s…positively American.
How is this disease spread? Are the bones and nerve tissue of American pharmacists being ground up and sold as food supplements to pharmacists in the UK?
4 Responses to “Mad Pharmacist Disease crosses the pond to Britain”
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Paul Tergeist says:
This seems to be fairly black and white to me. You go to a pharmacy and the pharmacist gives you what you ask for or gets fired on the spot. WTF happened to non-discrimination?
What’s next? You call the fire department and they don’t like the color of your house so they refer you to the store to buy a garden hose?
October 14th, 2006 at 12:51 am EST -
Pony says:
They have the right to refuse on conscience grounds. They also, here in Canada, have the right to refuse to provide if the woman declines to fill out a form with personal information; how many times and when she had sex; if it was unprotected sex or not; how many times she’s used Plan B; if she uses any contraception; and also submit to educational guidance from the pharmacist. I don’t know what pharmacies are like elsewhere, but here, there is no privacy. The dispencing window is right there next to the bread. It’s all designed to regulate a woman’s sexual activity. Meanwhile, condoms are for sale behind her, lined up row on row. No one has to fill out any form. Viagra on tap down the aisle.
The drug inovlved, levongesterol, is one of the drugs in the birth control pill. They dispense the birth control pill without thinking they’ve got some roll to play in a woman’s sex life.
“Plan B® is approved by the FDA and contains the hormone levonorgestrel, the same hormone in the birth control pills that healthcare professionals have been prescribing for more than 35 years. The difference is that Plan B® contains a larger dose of levonorgestrel than the amount found in a single birth control pill.”
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annared says:
To get back to how this dis-ease got across here? My theory is that it wafted across the pond on the back of one of God’s little angels. Little sods are turning up everywhere! In addition, I am currently developing (in a scientific way of course) an “Anti-Angel” pest control spray.
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witchy-woo says:
heh VS. That’s witty :) Made me laugh.
