Re: Results of my new doctor search

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:26:50 -0800, "Juba" <juba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>"Zombywoof" <Zomby-Woof_dogs_@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:a849s118dk1nm52er1gllkhhkagb8nj7tj@xxxxxxx
>> One of the things I haven't understood is why the patient simply can't
>> swing by the Dr's office and just pick up their monthly script. Why
>> the hell do they have to be seen?
>
>That's easy enough to understand from the DEA's perspective. If the
>point of monthly visits is to prevent abuse and diversion, then the Dr
>needs to look at the patient and ask a couple of questions before
>writing the script.
>
Well I can understand the abuse & diversion controls by giving out no
more then a months supply at a time. In my particular case there is
no question asking, just the infamous counting.

>> One of the things my clinic has
>> started doing is making the patients bring in their scripts and
>> counting the remaining pills out in front of them. This makes a
>> person feel like a real low brow. On top of that I don't want
>> somebody else's paws all over my medications that have been poured out
>> on to some table that hasn't been cleaned since god knows when.
>
>Demeaning and degrading are two words that come to mind.
>
Unsanitary is another.
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