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COPYRIGHT 2005 International Medical News Group
CHICAGO -- A pharmacist's philosophy shouldn't get in the way of prescribing needed drugs to patients. That was one of the conclusions that physicians reached while addressing controversial topics at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association's House of Delegates.
American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) policy recognizes an individual pharmacist's right to exercise conscientious refusal to fill prescriptions. In committee debate and in full congress, physicians at the House of Delegates meeting expressed concern that pharmacists were exercising this provision to impede access to certain medications, including emergency contraceptives and psychotropic agents.
"What happens between the doctor and the patient is between doctor and patient," Mary Frank, M.D., president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, told this newspaper. "What they decide has to have...
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