Also, I am happy for him that they did not try to completely pull his license. It sounds like they did allow him to go straight back to his 'regular practice' (gynecology) but on probation, and with stricter rules on what he could prescribe and to whom. Also they fined him, and required him to take some continuing education medical courses. I am just happy that they did not mess his life up worse. Often when I hear of these doctors being admonished by their state medical boards, I feel so sorry for them. In some cases, I have seen much harsher penalties on the doctors. I guess this also goes to show that different state's have different regulations when it comes to their medical board law. Other cases have been much worse. Some doctors' have had much worse penalties. Either the medical boards are finally lightening up a little bit on the 'online doctors' or AZ has a more lenient medical board than some states.
Some cases I have seen have been much worse than this. Although I do still feel sorry for the Dr. and hope that this doesn't damage his life and career too much. Not that I agree with the law and how it pertains to online doctors, but I DO think it is important for the doctor to at least make sure and obtain past medical records on their patients, if they are going to prescribe online. You can tell from this document that his penalties would most likely have been much less had he done so. In the future I do not think there will be any OP's that will do consultations without doctor records from the patients' past, documenting that they have been treated for some type of ongoing pain. Actually - 2 years ago, that was not that odd. (For the consultation service to not require records) - Today, it would be very odd.
I would say 99% of the consultation services now require past medical records. (And I don't mean filling out an online form I mean records from an actual past doctors' visit) - I actually can't believe there are doctors still out there that would be willing to take the chance of prescribing online without medical records in hand. The more times things like this happen, the less likely we will be to ever see that again. And being someone who needs pain medicine, I would have to say that the law is the law, like it or not, and I would be happy, personally, if there were no OP's left prescribing without requesting records. The existence of places that prescribe without past medical records is a threat, these days, to all of the other consultation services. Just my opinion.
I know some people have a hard time getting medical records so I am sure my above statement will not be too popular with some people, but I am not saying at all (!) that I agree that it should be *harder* for those in pain to receive adequate pain treatment, or that those with real problems obtaining records should be excluded. But, the laws are the way they are. I am simply saying that the more OP's out there that do not follow requirements such as obtaining medical records, the quicker we will see the whole online consultation world go away. If we want these places to stay around then we should be happy when a place requires records, with no exceptions. Otherwise (in the eyes of the medical boards), they are just making the rest of the places look bad.
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