> > > > I dunno, Well that would be obvious
> your duty to The State in obeying it's regulations about > privacy and your duty to your customers seems pretty clear cut. Not so clear cut. First I don't have any customers. Maybe you have customers, but as a Pharmacist I have patients, which is why they call me Doctor. > I > don't exactly know where you figure unlawfully disclosing HIPPA > protected info to unauthorized people sets in, but if that's your idea > of the RIGHT THING, I don't want you counting MY pills. > That is fine. HIPPA doesn't override my professional responsibilities. I will not let people die because of HIPPA, or any OTHER regulation. See, as a medical professional, we have a responsibility that goes well beyond the letter of the law. We are actually called upon to do what it right. As for counting pills, I have no IDEA what your talking about. I have no pills in my pharmacy, unless you mean the birth control tablets, which are not pills either. Nor do have I counted any tablets in about 10 years. There is a big machine and a few non-professional techs running around to do that. Its time for you to put your bigoted ideas away and upgrade your perspective of what a Pharmacist does and is. More often then not they are saying some more patients neck. > You might decide the RIGHT THING is to swap my BP meds for something > different, or short me cause you believe the doc prescribed too many. Well, on the first case, I might very well indeed do that. Better me than the pharmacist working for your insurance company. But if I did, and it was in a outpatient situation, I would confer with the physician. If it was an inpatient situation, I would need to know the protocols for institution. In some places I would indeed just change it. In others I'd write the problem in the chart. I would CERTAINLY never authorize the dispensing of anything I found which I deemed not in your interest, and potentially harmful to your health, > > Maybe the RIGHT THING is to not fill a "morning after" script. > Maybe, but that would be a different issue which has zero to do with this thread. And some dentists refuse to work with HIV patients, and many physicians refuse to perform abortions. And then you have physician assisted suicide and the recent questions about the use of injections for executions in the criminal system. Your welcome to break each of these issues out to different threads, but I no interest in participating in those discussions at this time. > Perhaps you don't want to admit violating the law, your oath, and > professional cannons in something archived forever by Google, too. > > You are obviously clueless what my professional responsibilities are anyway. By all means, google away! Ruben ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
