Posted by linkadge on December 5, 2010, at 14:41:20
In reply to Re: My turn my life as it's unraveled, posted by Simcha on December 5, 2010, at 2:01:13
I agree with your comments Simcha. If a pharmacist has a real beef with how medications are prescribed, then they need to go back to school for another 10 years and become a psychiatrist.
Psychiatrists have spend time with the individual patient and probably understand the cost/benefit analysis better for an individual patient.
For exmaple, suppose a patient comes in, hooked on high doses of valium. Perhaps the doctor intends to get the patient off, but due to a major life stressor feels that now is not the time. The psychiatrist will have a better feel for these factors. The pharmacist just sees this as a high dose of an addictive drug.
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