It turned out that the doctor who was to busy that day to stop and think about waht he was doing. He wrote it, expedited it through overnight courrierT-Boo wrote:yeah you're right, if it was an honest mistake or just poor planning on the patient's part, he should have been given a warning.I've just never heard of doctor's writing out of state Rx's. that was the shocking news to me, given the strict process to get licensed w/in a state.
has anyone has?
but to be given that harsh a sentence means something else we're not aware of. it's not always the way it's written about and we don't always have all the minute court document details.
but unfortunately if this was a mistake and he didn't just get a warning from an honest mistake, then he's probably paying the price from others doing the same thing knowingly and illegally, and another reason why state drug laws differ.
if this medicine was so serious the question is why is it not legal in Florida. if it wasn't as critical/serious why didn't he take the time to get a doctor locally. the time he spent getting an Rx from a doctor some 1000+ miles away instead of just picking up the phone locally or walking into a hospital and getting help if he was in such pain is baffling
and why isn't anyone legally looking into this if it was an honest mistake?
to his patient without thinking.
So when the Fed's showed up to arrest the doctor, he decided to say the patient forged the script, which carries a 5 year sentense.
He didn't want to lose his licsense. He wasn't given a warning.
Who knows, maybe had he fought the charge, he would have lost the lisense anyway.
AARP has finally taken on the case in the interest for the elderly.
Old people aren't insurable through normal walk in hospital plans.
Medicaid has a clause which won't allow the patient coverage if a hospital trip is out of convenience and not an emergency.
Doctors who take medicaid are sometimes booked 6 months in advance so getting a new doctor immediately would have meant out of pocket cost to the patient which was on disability and couldn't afford it.
2nd. Remember all the hoopla about teens and Oxycotin?
It got so bad that teens were getting lists of disability/pain patients and locating their addresses so they could break into the patients home and steal the prescription right off their bathroom counter. So the state decided to outlaw the drug. And suggest a derivative morphine based med to those in chronic pain.