Posted on 05/17/2020 1:56:42 PM PDT by ransomnote
After outrage from grassroots Texans, state bureaucrats backed down on requiring physicians to submit a written diagnosis when prescribing a drug claimed to have had very positive results treating the Chinese coronavirus.
As previously reported, Dr. Ivette Lozano claimed she hit a brick wall from the Texas Board of Pharmacy when trying to prescribe hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus patients at her clinic. Lozano also said she believed such a requirement was a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
She reached out to State Sen. Bob Hall (R–Edgewood), who confirmed the board had not only mandated that physicians provide a written diagnosis with a prescription for the medication, but pharmacists could deny the prescription if its intended use—in this case, treating the coronavirus—wasn’t among the ones listed on its label by the Food and Drug Administration.
Hall argued prescribing medications for uses other than what is on its label is a “well-known, well-accepted practice” and challenged the board on these new restrictions.
The board responded by reversing its decision, allowing off-label prescriptions of hydroxychloroquine but still requiring a written diagnosis.
Yet after a grassroots outcry, the board backed down again and amended their guidance, adding, “[T]he intended use for the drug is not required if the practitioner determines the furnishing of this information is not in the best interest of the patient in accordance with Board rule 291.34 (b)(7).”
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I am a Texas Pharmacist now retired post two years. I know exactly what “OFF LICENSE” prescribing is. Many drugs have approved indications when they were first licensed. The drug companies spent much money on the research and licensing of these drugs. Once the patent has expired it becomes generic and is of little value to the original innovator.
Thus is the great imputes for “new drugs” to combat this corona virus when perhaps we have drugs today that can.
As a pharmacist I have great respect for those in research in our great pharmaceutical companies. They have alleviated much suffering in the world and to be admired. They have saved untold millions of lives.
What worry’s me is do the governing heads of those great companies share the same vision as their most excellent researchers, docs, chemists, research pharmacists and even Mr. Sam or be his name Jose. I would rather trust the wisdom of Sam and Jose.
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I am educated in the extreme. I trust Sam and Jose. I do not trust the head of Microsoft Mr. Bill Gates.
Follow the money. See if it leads to Big Pharma. Name Names.
Follow the money. See if it leads to Big Pharma. Name Names. The Pharmacy Board wants to keep its retirement fund growing as fast as possible.
This has to from backlash over that doctor in dallas that went viral
Last June, the idiots at the Texas Pharmacy Board started requiring the use of Special pads with a RED Rx where the white Rx is located when prescribing Schedule 5 narcotics. My oncologist at MD Anderson said he would not purchase those pads because they are very expensive and the VA was the only pharmacy where he could prescribe Adderall through a secure portal.
Thankfully, I had gotten to know the head of the VA pharmacy at the Houston VA. She hooked me up with a psychiatrist in the Mental Health Clinic. I met with him once and when it’s time for a refill, I just send him a secure message through the MyHealthyvet portal and get the refill in 1-2 days.
I’m glad it was resolved without stress! :D
Dittoes: “I do not trust the head of Microsoft Mr. Bill Gates.”
Thanks for your service as a pharmacist.
I would not trust most CEO’s of pharm companies today. Also there are Pharmacy Directors and some pharm d’s I don’t trust.
Do a check on my posts re Gates.
He is a very scary man without any morality.
If President Trump is not reelected, Gates will make $oreA$$ look like a good guy.
When one has the wealth and age of Soros the only aphrodisiac left is power. Gates does not have the age of Soros but most definitely has the lust for power.
I don’t get stressed; I cause it others when they are being stupid.
Ransom note. I communicated with Dr.Izette Lozano on Friday, May 22nd. She said that it is not true. She still cannot get HCQ at a pharmacy in Texas for CoVid-19 patients.
Ransom note. I communicated with Dr.Izette Lozano on Friday, May 22nd. She said that it is not true. She still cannot get HCQ at a pharmacy in Texas for CoVid-19 patients.
Ransom note. I communicated with Dr.Izette Lozano on Friday, May 22nd. She said that it is not true. She still cannot get HCQ at a pharmacy in Texas for CoVid-19 patients.
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