Moral Pharmacist - Social Experiment

When a pharmacist refuses to fill a young girl's prescription for contraceptives, the others in the waiting room react. The conflict for them is whether he has the right to refuse her based on his morals?

From a social psychology point of view, this video is a good exploration of Attitudes, how they are formed and what function they serve the people in this experiment.

Our attitudes are part of our Emotional Aspect of Being, are patterns of beliefs and values and shape our future actions. There are three types of Attitudes (A, B, C: Affectively based (emotional), Behaviourally based (observing behaviours of others) and Cognitively based (reacting with our rational thoughts over our emotions).

We've learned, also, that Attitudes are very much linked to Motivation - they help us gain approval or acceptance of others, help us make sense of our surroundings, protect ourselves from uncomfortable truths around us, and help us demonstrate our own unique ideas and values.

In this video, it is interesting that some feel more comfortable expressing showing their attitude, either directly to the young girl(s) or to the pharmacist himself. Others only share an attitude after the confrontation has passed.

For this particular situation, with the young girls (actresses) being only 16, there is also a conflict for people in their values - they may believe a woman has the right to take care of herself and the pharmacist has no right to refuse her that, but they may also disagree with the idea of a young girl having premarital sex ... so there is a conflict between their values. Our Congitive Dissonance man would say the pharmacist is doing the wrong thing but for the right reason.

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• social
• psychology
• attitudes
• beliefs
• values
• experiment
• cognitive
• dissonance
• moral
• conflict

[edzrant]

To me a bigger issue here is the fact that the patient's private issue is being discussed so openly in front of the other customers so that everyone can 'overhear'. I know this is a staged performance, but still, patient confidentiality is imperative. I also don't think this is an accurate portrayal of how a pharmacist would react in real life - if they were morally against it, they'd be bound by professional conduct to refer the patient to another pharmacy to have the medications dispensed.

[simlim888]

@OneTrueCzar I think edzrant is saying that it is not an accurate portrayal of a real life situation so the 'social experiment' is flawed. It also deludes the viewers of the normal actions of a pharmacist which may affect the relationship of the pharmacist with its patient. Trust is important in healthcare and even though the experiment’s objective is not relating to the actions of the pharmacist, it can influence the perspective that society sees pharmacist at the pharmacist’s expense.

[SicSlaver]

@TheOswald42 I think you're talking about abortion where the baby isn't even born yet. There are people out there that do try to stop abortion. The thing is, the person responsible in telling that person to not abort or commit suicide should also be responsible in some way in supporting that person. If not, there's no point in not going through with it. Both abortion and suicide are attempts to relieve one's suffering, so they'll need help in finding another option.

[TatianaRox96]

I liked the second guy best ha

[Judithsyt]

Omg she is so beautiful, the first girl! :)

- Also the other girl.

[OneTrueCzar]

@edzrant Well the whole point is to do the social extreme to see how people react to it.

[TheOswald42]

two case, someone kill baby and suicide attempt, why would people stop suicide attempt and not the baby? interesting, people think baby choose to die while they're not born yet

[enimcraft]

I'm addicted to watching this shit.

[nvshd]

The actor portraying the doctor is overdoing it I think. Some of the things he's saying are unrealistically assholish.

[SketchyGamerMan]

I think the moral route would be to merely attempt to notify her parental guardians about the prescription in some way if possible, not deny the prescription and make a scene. I mean, what, do you want to let the girl get pregnant and fuck up their live as well as their child's? How is that right?

I also really liked that nun. Even though they morally agreed with pharmacist they were still nonjudgmental and helpful towards the girl. That woman at the end was nice too!