Sunday, June 11, 2006
Dispensing Plan B
Never would have thought I had a chance to do it. Where I typically work, we don't order it, so I have had no need to do it. And as a result, I never thought about what would actually happen when I was presented a choice with counseling a patient on their Plan B prescription.
So what did I do? I did the horrible thing: I told her to take one tablet now and wait another 12 hours before taking the other--just as long as it hadn't been over 72 hours since the time of the occurrence.
Oddly, I haven't had much time to think about what I did.
Does that mean that I have implicitly given my support to whatever behavior the young lady engaged in? Does that mean that now I should fill and dispense the medication without ever thinking about the moral implications? Or did I merely do my job?
The explanation I gave to my fiance was this: I did my job. I was neither giving my acquiescence to her behavior (whatever that was) nor was I now forced into a position in the future that I must now dispense and fill Plan B.
Maybe I have just given myself a little bit more time to think about the next chance to counsel on it. But I need to make a decision soon about how I will next handle it.
Two weeks ago, I got a chance to dispense Plan B, the emergency contraceptive.
Never would have thought I had a chance to do it. Where I typically work, we don't order it, so I have had no need to do it. And as a result, I never thought about what would actually happen when I was presented a choice with counseling a patient on their Plan B prescription.
So what did I do? I did the horrible thing: I told her to take one tablet now and wait another 12 hours before taking the other--just as long as it hadn't been over 72 hours since the time of the occurrence.
Oddly, I haven't had much time to think about what I did.
Does that mean that I have implicitly given my support to whatever behavior the young lady engaged in? Does that mean that now I should fill and dispense the medication without ever thinking about the moral implications? Or did I merely do my job?
The explanation I gave to my fiance was this: I did my job. I was neither giving my acquiescence to her behavior (whatever that was) nor was I now forced into a position in the future that I must now dispense and fill Plan B.
Maybe I have just given myself a little bit more time to think about the next chance to counsel on it. But I need to make a decision soon about how I will next handle it.
posted by Laura Keslar at 5:34 PM | |
When extra time is not really necessary
But not only does this guy not need the extra time (because he really can focus and just doesn't like focusing in school), he actually cheats and brings in extra study materials into the quiet, empty room that SALT provides. And by empty, I mean no teachers, no instructors, no supervisors. Just the student and his crib sheet.
And now an article comes out that says many of the students who take extra time for the SAT really don't need the extra time and score better grades than students who take the test during the normal time. Surprising discovery, eh?
A guy I work with at one of my jobs(yes, now I am working two jobs, with a total of 60 hours--at least, depending if I pick up any more hours--between the two of them) has often mentioned how one of his friends with ADD or ADHD (I should know the difference) has been able to get extra time taking his tests here at the University of Arizona through SALT.
But not only does this guy not need the extra time (because he really can focus and just doesn't like focusing in school), he actually cheats and brings in extra study materials into the quiet, empty room that SALT provides. And by empty, I mean no teachers, no instructors, no supervisors. Just the student and his crib sheet.
And now an article comes out that says many of the students who take extra time for the SAT really don't need the extra time and score better grades than students who take the test during the normal time. Surprising discovery, eh?
posted by Laura Keslar at 5:28 PM | |
