I agree with your view of prescribing drugs. I feel we should prescribe about 10 percent of the drugs now prescribed. With all the good modern medicine affords, it is a big part of the problem today for many unusual behaviors. I do not accept that they are a valid excuse for such behaviors. A sick little secret in medicine is when you are seeing someone and they drone on and on and on the doctor (who is a person too) has his eyes glaze over and often seek an exit. The quickest way to do this is to write a prescription and get out of the room, rather than reasoning with a patient. It is many a patient I have gotten angry with me for not writing the script. I am lucky, though, because in the field I am in, I fix things and people get better (surgery). If your practice requires a large volume of patients, you are trying to herd them through like cattle through a chute. This is part of the problem. Look at commercials today telling people to gol in and ask your doctor to prescribe this or that drug. It's like they demand a reward for coming in. Some do the same on a street corner. It's like Willy Nelson said in his song from "Electric Horseman", 'when it seems the whole world is spinning of in space."
She lives in an apartment building.....no one heard this baby screaming??
I can hear the kid down the street who's INSIDE his house....from INSIDE my house. No windows or doors open on either of our houses.
The doctor I work for often has patients come in wanting Vicodin or worse and many get very upset when he refers them instead to a pain center for evaluation or gives them something not in the "Class-3" drug category... Doctors have to be more careful than ever to watch for "drug seeking behavior."