tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404644.post-1150072904734115672006-06-11T17:34:00.000-07:002006-06-11T17:41:44.736-07:002006-06-11T17:41:44.736-07:00Two weeks ago, I got a chance to dispense Plan B, the emergency contraceptive. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />Oddly, I haven't had much time to think about what I did. <br /><br />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? <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.Laura Keslarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16028457513176008377noreply@blogger.com