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- Title: Crushed at the Counter: Protection for a Pharmacist's Right of Conscience.
- Author : Ave Maria Law Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 338 KB
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INTRODUCTION Increasingly, lawmakers are passing legislation hostile to the freedom of a pharmacist to act according to her conscience. This legislation forces the professional health care provider to check her conscience at the pharmacy's door and abdicate her responsibility to provide her patients the most complete care possible. (1) A pharmacist's "right of conscience" must be adequately protected in accordance with respect for her profession and for the welfare of her patients. Other medical professionals' right of conscience receives adequate protection, but that of a pharmacist's does not, perhaps because the issue did not surface until recently. (2)