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To: The Phantom FReeper

If you read my full response you’d see I did say sometimes what you say happens. But nobody can force a doctor to write a prescription. That is bullsh1t and you know it.

I know doctors have to explain viruses are not affected by medicines that attack bateria. That is why you have to sit there and explain it to them. That’s part of the job. It’s also part of keeping a good reputation as a doctor, because other doctors if and when they review your treatments will see you are incorrectly prescribing meds that are not appropriate for what a patient has.


15 posted on 09/22/2010 6:02:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
the doctor can know almost for sure that a cough or a runny nose or an ear ache etc is viral....but try explaining that to a patient...patients want "something" done...

you think any dr. in his right mind would not order antibiotics IF they knew they would be sued repeatedly for any complication that came along....

people want drs to act doctorly, but they don't really want them to on the other hand...they want it both ways..

42 posted on 09/22/2010 7:00:38 PM PDT by cherry
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