{"id":5062,"date":"2020-03-01T15:13:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T20:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2020-03-01T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T20:13:32","slug":"reading-response-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/03\/01\/reading-response-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Response 3\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Flanigan\u2019s article \u201cThree Arguments Against Prescription Requirements\u201d I did not know what to think. I agree completely that a doctor has no right to force someone to go with a specific treatment path or medicine, but I am having a really hard time with her argument about how people should have the right to choose what medicine they are going to take. I think that this could lead to a myriad of problems because people do not know as much about the medicines that they could be taking compared to the doctors. Becoming a doctor takes years of schooling and training for a reason, I do not think that people should just be able to say I think I will take this medicine for their medical problem because they do not know the risks or effectiveness of the drug. I think that people do deserve to have the freedom to choose which path they take for treatment, but I think that medicine choice is something that should be left with the medical professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Flanigan\u2019s article \u201cThree Arguments Against Prescription Requirements\u201d I did not know what to think. I agree completely that a doctor has no right to force someone to go with a specific treatment path or medicine, but I am having a really hard time with her argument about how people should have the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}