It has come to my attention that your pharmacy has refused to fill valid prescriptions
for ivermectin. Your pharmacy manager told one customer that the refusal was because
ivermectin was not FDA-approved for use in treatment of COVID-19. This same manager
told the prescribing physician that she was “not comfortable” dispensing a prescription for
ivermectin to treat COVID-19 and that there was “no indication” for the prescription.
-Lucan
That's a powerful letter.
ReplyDeleteGood!
ReplyDeleteThanks for that Lucan and Ken. That's going in my Covid file. Who knows it may prove useful at point in the future.
ReplyDeleteNemo
Well....it's a great example of an intimidating lawyer letter. But: Did it work?
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of this other great example of a not-quite-so-good effort from 1974, that was responded to with two sentences by the lawyer representing the Cleveland Browns:
https://www.clevescene.com/64-and-counting/archives/2010/12/22/absolutely-epic-1974-letter-from-cleveland-browns-to-a-fan
As a veterinarian I have a lot of latitude when it comes to dispensing medications. I am legally allowed to prescribe medication‘s that are for veterinary use only, as well as anything that’s in the human market. of course we veterinarians use ivermectin a lot for dogs cats horses cows and pretty much every other furry animal that we treat. Well I don’t have any personal experience with pharmacist not filling my prescriptions, I know several of my colleagues that have. The problem I’ve seen is that many of these pharmacist think that they know more than the prescribing decision. Which of course they usually don’t! A number of years ago they started to administer pharmacists a doctorate degree and just because they have the doctor behind their name now they think they know as much as the prescribing physician and they don’t. So some of my colleagues have called these Pharmacist out on this little issue and many of them have backed down and conceded because they had no legal Highground to make the final decision
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Glass bottles, spare rags, wear gloves during assembly.
The time for politeness was about 150,000 lives ago.
I have a condition where pork turns my internal organs into a noxious gas producing unit. I have made a C-17 take an emergency landing in Italy after I had a pork knuckle 2 hours before the flight in Germany. The indigestion drug, Prilosec will settle my stomach where I am no longer a gas giant when eating pork. I have been taking it for over 10 years to keep my bowels from going to a gas super nova.
ReplyDeleteUnder normal circumstances criminalizing efficacious therapeutics would get you laughed out of the room and fired.
ReplyDeleteToday it's the norm? The withholding of said drugs is murder, depraved indifference.
Start charging them.
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