[Black Agnes]

Wow. Obtuse much?

Because Korean women are somehow premenopausal differently than the millions of premenopausal American women.

Why prescribe something that’s available over the counter? Do you like the German model where only doctors can prescribe vitamins?

Are you secretly a nanny stater?

[caveat emptor]

Why prescribe something that’s available over the counter?

Not wishing to be argumentative, but situations sometimes arise. My elderly mother-in-law in a nursing home had a long term wound which wouldn't heal - from large spider bite, she said. The food was terrible, veggies boiled into soggy mass, care was mostly indifferent, some pretty good, some vindictive (she had senile dementia and could get mouthy).

I asked her doctor to prescribe some Vitamin C tablets, nothing over the top, just OTC from a drug store, as well as daily cleaning and debridement. I knew that many aides wouldn't follow through on my say so. He wrote the prescription, issued the instructions, and I bought the pills and put them in her room. The wound headed in a few weeks.