title: Refusal to dispense a prescription: what is the law?
abstract: Courts are beginning to recognize that a pharmacist has a duty to act for the patient's benefit, and that simply dispensing a prescription order correctly does not meet that duty. But a duty to refuse to dispense medication does not exist except under the most extreme circumstances.
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Brushwood
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Lively
mesh_terms: D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D007885:Legislation, Pharmacy; D008318:Malpractice; D012309:Risk-Taking