Everyone always freaks out when pharmacists get small expansions in scopes of practice. People freaked out about immunizations, and some still do. Has anything majorly wrong happened from that? What about the good that's happened with increased access and awareness?
Each issue is it's own thing and OC can't be compared to vaccines per se, but I don't understand the kicking many in the profession do over things like this. Do people want to see pharmacy advance at all? Hell, half the time when OC is prescribed there is no exam, sometimes there isn't even a discussion. I have female family members on Accutane for which they must be on OC, all they did was ask if they smoked and if they said no they'd get an estrogen containing one, if yes you get progesterone only. We learned this in school too among other things. It still has restrictions and it's not being used to treat disease. If you are educated on how to use it safely I don't see why pharmacists wouldn't want to expand into this area. It also helps demonstrate how we are worth being paid for clinical services and advancing the profession.
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