I just had to type what I was thinking and I am sure others think this way also and I know it has been writen in other threads. How is it the docs fault when someone uses their meds other than the way they were prescribed? The doctor can not hold the patients hand. would they go after the the doctor that is treating a patient that has great suicidal tendancies if this person does commit suicide, will they say the doc didn't do his job, or didn't do what he was paid to do? Once a patient leaves the office the doctor has no way of knowing or controling what the patient does any more than any of us can control what others do. The family memebers of the people that have dies because of so called "over prescribing" are so passing the buck, never mind the fact that maybe they should have paid a bit more attention to the so called "loved one" that they are so distraught over losing. But did they care enough when they were alive to see that they were either being taken care of properly or be involved enough to know when there might be a problem. I don't mean to sound harsh and how awful to lose someone you are close to, it just always seems to easier to blame someone else than to take any responsiblity at all either for yourself or for those that claim they so loved someone that they want to go to court and put the doc out of business and take that couple million they get to the bank for pain and suffering after the fact. Never mind the poor soul that was truly suffering.
chevygal