I am incredibly lucky in that respect. My doctors (both my Primary Care/Internist and my GYN) both believe that I am fully capable of deciding for myself when or if I want children and that their responsibilities as physicians override any personal issues they might have with a particular procedure or medication. Yes, I've had this discussion with them.
My brother is, I believe, one of the pharmacists who would refuse to fill a scrip. He got out of retail pharmacy a long time ago, because he knows that there are things he would have to do in retail work that he might find morally objectionable, and he also believed that it would be better for his conscience and his license if he just never found himself in that position. I wish more folks had his professional ethics.
I know someone for whom her pills are truly lifesaving medication. She is manic bipolar. She has run across pharmacists who do not agree with or believe in psychoative medication and who believe that all mental illness can be treated with talk & behavioral therapy. She has a chemical imbalance in her brain, and she will have a psychotic episode if she goes without her medication for more than about 24 hours. No amount of talk therapy will change that. She's had to fight to get her scrips filled at times when she has had to deal with those folks. She is also on BCP, because a pregnancy would be devastating to her emotional condition and the drugs she takes would be almost certain to cause severe fetal abnormalities. On top of that, she is not a good candidate for sterilization, because the drugs she takes to regular her illness are completely contraindicated with general anesthesia.
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My brother is, I believe, one of the pharmacists who would refuse to fill a scrip. He got out of retail pharmacy a long time ago, because he knows that there are things he would have to do in retail work that he might find morally objectionable, and he also believed that it would be better for his conscience and his license if he just never found himself in that position. I wish more folks had his professional ethics.
I know someone for whom her pills are truly lifesaving medication. She is manic bipolar. She has run across pharmacists who do not agree with or believe in psychoative medication and who believe that all mental illness can be treated with talk & behavioral therapy. She has a chemical imbalance in her brain, and she will have a psychotic episode if she goes without her medication for more than about 24 hours. No amount of talk therapy will change that. She's had to fight to get her scrips filled at times when she has had to deal with those folks. She is also on BCP, because a pregnancy would be devastating to her emotional condition and the drugs she takes would be almost certain to cause severe fetal abnormalities. On top of that, she is not a good candidate for sterilization, because the drugs she takes to regular her illness are completely contraindicated with general anesthesia.