Good lord! We are a depraved society
Is he not aware that every prescription written is reviewed? Probably first by AI looking for deviations from normal. Then by insurance. Believe me, anything odd will be flagged. A doctor prescribing something that’s illegal and outside his normal routine prescriptions is going to raise flags, sendoff rockets and blow horns.
My GP said as much when I asked for Retin-A, which would normally not be in his formulary of acceptable prescriptions. But the risk was minimal, so he did it. Although, he would not diagnose a skin condition as “I’m not a dermatologist.”
Doctors around here are hyper specialized. There’s a surgeon at Shands who treats only brain aneurisms. Nothing else. The local orthopedic surgeons apparently only do one type of surgery each. Imagine a thirty-year career as a proctologist. Not that I’m demeaning proctologists...but, DAMN!