Why Does Everything Suddenly Sound Like An Excuse for Privatization?
SheGrabbedMyPad&WroteAPrescription-IWasPowerlessToStopHer
But often doctors are overworked, and the quickest way to deal with patients is to give them the drugs they're seeking.
I really can't stand it when the excuse given by doctors for over-prescribing medication is that patients ask for it. You're doctors. If we could write our own prescriptions - believe me - we would. But we have a very expensive healthcare system that entrusts you with this responsibility.
STOP BLAMING PATIENTS FOR DOCTORS WHO OVER-PRESCRIBE MEDICATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember this was the excuse given by doctors for the over-prescribing of antibiotics for children, too. "But parents won't listen to us when we say the infection is viral, not bacterial, and that antibiotics won't work, anyway. So to get rid of them and go on to the next patient, we give them a prescription for antibiotics."
DOCTORS! JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS!!!! SOMETIMES, IT'S YOUR JOB TO SAY NO!!!!!!!!!
I mean, seriously. Whatever happened to "Do No Harm"? And stop blaming overwork, underpay, universal publicly funded healthcare - everybody but the doctors who are over-prescribing medication - FOR THE OVER-PRESCRIBING OF MEDICATION!!!!!!!!
