Conscientious Refusal to Fill a Legal Prescription
The WSMA believes that individual pharmacists or pharmacy chains should be
required to fill legally valid prescriptions, to contact the prescribing
physician promptly for clarification, or to provide immediate referral to
an appropriate alternative dispensing pharmacy without interference. In
the event that an individual pharmacist or pharmacy chain refers a patient
to an alternative dispensing source, the individual pharmacist or the
pharmacy chain is required to notify the prescribing physician of the
referral. (Res C-1, A-06) (Reaffirmed A-19)
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Abbreviations for House of Delegates report origination:
EC – Executive Committee; BT – Board of Trustees; CPA – Council on
Professional Affairs; JC – Judicial Council; CHS – Community and Health
Services