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Any of you "Legally Related" readers out there ever seen the
"message" posted below anywhere other then a public forum?
OPs almost by definition have a much greater financial incentive to prescribe opiate narcotic pain therapies than not to prescribe those therapies in favor of other more effective, but less pleasurable and habit forming, and profitable, medications. That is one of the reasons the DEA is after OPs so often and so doggedly - prescribing these opiates based on the evaluation of records and phone conversations, no matter how thorough and well intentioned, is not even close to what most medical professionals, even those who support many of the aspects of telemedicine that OPs do represent, find remotely acceptable. OPs almost universally fail to consider other options that are being developed in pain management, partly because people want opiates and will take their money (the OPs profits) elsewhere if not given the narcotics they desire (vs. need), and partly because they often cannot effectively prescribe or manage these therapies without having a face to face contact with a patient. While I realize the reality that this type of prescribing of opiate narcotics is at the moment technically legal, doing so a) is not effecatious in the long term to simply prescribe opiates that have short chemical half lives and are addictive for treatment of long term chronic medical conditions, b) does not address how the chronic medical condition(s) could be treated in other ways that would heal or improve the actual condition, rather than simply masking symptomologies through prescription of large quantities of opiates, and most importantly c) prescribing narcotic opiate medication therapies in a way that creates a situation in which the prescriber also supplies the prescribed narcotic opiate therapy puts the medical practioner in the position of greatly profiting by creating, sustaining and enabling dependence/addiction and addicts to narcotics (or dependent people or CP patients or however one wishes to be refered to if it makes you feel better). OPs profit only when ongoing narcotic opiate medication therapies are prescribed and dispensed by them repeatedly. OPs have no incentive to NOT prescribe these medications. OPs are created and operated for the sole purpose of making lucrative profits dispensing controlled substances. Period. They do not give medications away, nor sell them at cost. OPs routinely ahve 100 to 200% price markups. They make no medical referrals. They conduct no medical examinations. They order no medical tests. They have no medical follow up with the physicans whose records they rely on the prescribe in the first place. They do not take basic vital information such as current and timely blood pressure, pulse, and temperature readings that a school nurse would conduct. In short, they prescribe substantial and powerful narcotic opiate therapies based on faxes and phone conversations that may be perfectly true and valid, or may be completley fabricated - how can they possibly differentiate between the two? There is nothing wrong with being in business and making money. OPs do so by continuing to provide addictive narcotic opiate therapies to patients who may, or far more likely , may not need them based on a phone call and some faxed pieces of paper. By any stretch of the imagination how is this the practice of medicine? I am becoming more convinced, and deeply concerned, that this busines is simply the uniting of physicans and pharmcies and pharmacists using the authority of thier liscence to profit by distributing controlled narcotic opiate medications for medical reasons whose validity and appropriateness are impossible to determine.
I am some what interested in the source of the above>>>>NEON