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this is fascinating. while trump was president, all the leftards opposed getting the trump vax, as soon as the biden get installed and takes credit, the vax is pushed to the population with mandates on top.

then of course, the issue becomes heavily politicized, and any deviation from leftard established course of action is an insurrection, worst than 9/11.

the authors of whatever page on the internet are NOT your doctor, the author of this article is also NOT your doctor, the people pushing qtard crap are NOT you doctor, the people on facebook writing stupid comments are NOT your doctor.

STOP TAKING MEDICAL ADVICE FROM INTERNET AND TALK TO A DOCTOR YOU TRUST.

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That's the issue. With healthcare being so expensive and strained, and especially young and poor (and the young are often poor) people not seeing doctors as often, people are less likely to have a doctor they trust.

Many doctors prescribe ivermectin. Many pharmacies refuse to fill the prescription. What then?

if your doctor prescribes it to you and you have doubts about it, ask the doctor for clarification.

pharmacies should not be refusing to fill a prescription, unless there is a doubt around the authenticity of the prescription (and the pharmacy probably has a procedure to report it). if it's possible to file some sort of complaint, that definitely should be done. the people at the pharmacy don't know more about your health than your doctor.

A pharmacist’s professional role is as an expert on medication, and their scope of practice includes refusing to fill therapeutically inappropriate prescriptions. Normally this serves to catch dosing errors or drug interactions, but it’s also a safety net for other inappropriate prescriptions. We don’t put pharmacists through 8 years of post-secondary education to blindly fill whatever a physician writes for.

In the US, the requirement for pharmacists to police prescriptions even goes as far as criminal liability for dispensing inappropriately prescribed controlled substances (see: “corresponding responsibility”).

Choosing to dispense, or not dispense ivermectin isn’t going to rise to that level, but no state Board of Pharmacy is going to take action against a pharmacist who judges that ivermectin is inappropriate for a COVID diagnosis.

File a complaint? What good is that? Every day that passes is vital when you have a fever and are getting increasingly ill by the hour. If only ivermectin was available without a prescription...

> If only ivermectin was available without a prescription...

please don't. if it needs a prescription, probably there is a reason for it

Odd how HN is replete with posts and articles about the supposed therapeutic effects of pot, LSD, and shrooms... but, bemoan the use of any medicine not approved by Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, or Anderson Cooper.

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