Although pharmacists may seem skeptical of certain medications a patient is receiving from his or her doctor, is it really in their best judgment to determine whether or not it is the correct medication for that certain person? As stated before it is their responsibility to make sure the patients’ prescriptions are legitimate, this can be easily achieved by a simple phone call to the patients’ physician to ensure that everything is correct. Pharmacists do not have the right to interfere with the physician’s decisions on how to treat his or her patients. If the patient feels as if the doctor he or she is seeing is ineffective in their treatment, then it is their decision to find a new physician that can suit their needs better. When the phone call is received and the doctor has assured the pharmacists that the patients medications are indeed correct then the pharmacist should have no reason not to fill the prescription. 

It is very clear pharmacists went to school for a career in pharmaceuticals, not schooling for a career as a doctor. What needs to happen is pharmacists need to stop questioning the authority and intelligence that the physician has in their particular field of study. When the clarification of the medication is ensured, the patient, who now had to go without, and physician, should be left alone. After that there is no particular reason to contact the medical board. If the medical board does decide to interfere with the particular situation they should first examine and question themselves, as they gave the physician the right to practice on the public in the first place. That is to say they have gave the right for a potentially harmful physician to practice on women, men and children of the public in the first place. The medical board needs to ensure that the physicians they are placing among the public are in fact there for the patients and peoples' well being, not to harm them.