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Nov 21, 2023 · German news agency dpa quoted a lawyer for Seidenberg, Rainer Cherkeh, as saying that Seidenberg had been taking medicine prescribed by a doctor for medical reasons and that he had asked the ...
Jan 27, 2014 · Doctor André Seidenberg, who has treated 3,500 patients suffering from addictions in his career, was one of the first to provide emergency help in Needle Park and to call for clean syringes to...
Misuse or potential abuse, particularly of controlled substances, can influence a doctor’s decision not to prescribe certain drugs. Clinical judgments prioritize the patient’s health status, medical history, and test results.
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If a patient walks into my office using threatening language or behaving violently toward me or my staff and fails to improve his behavior despite good-faith attempts at redirection, I can ask him to leave without receiving care. Of course, there may be extenuating circumstances. A patient in the midst of a mental health crisis who is abusive clear...
Doctors should not provide treatment outside their scope of practice. As a cardiologist, I have expertise in treating cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, but I do not manage non-cardiac conditions. If a patient of mine with heart disease asks me for pain medication for a lower back strain or antibiotics for an ear infection, I should decli...
The third context in which doctors can refuse to provide certain treatments deserves a closer look. Patients seek care from physicians not only to treat illness but also to promote wellness and flourishing, and physicians have duties to provide this care to the best of their abilities. These include the imperatives to respect patient autonomy, to i...
There are some situations in which professional duties inevitably come into conflict with each other. Several states have legalized physician-assisted suicide, though typically with strict criteria such as the need for multiple physicians to confirm the presence of terminal disease and psychiatric evaluation to exclude treatable mental illness. The...
While there circumstances such as the ones I described earlier in which physicians can and should decline to provide treatment, the so-called conscience rule goes too far in its allowances. For example, if a pregnant woman comes to the emergency room at night in distress due to what doctors subsequently deem a life-threatening complication of pregn...
Jul 21, 2021 · The epidemic of opioid deaths could never have happened without doctors prescribing the drugs in large amounts. Some doctors were clearly culpable in that they ran “pill mills,” where they prescribed huge quantities of drugs to anybody, knowing that many of the drugs would find their way onto the black market.
Jan 10, 2012 · Self prescribing is legal in the United Kingdom: registered and licensed doctors can have access to any prescription drug and can purchase private prescriptions from pharmacies.
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Jul 8, 2016 · But even if the connection between prescription drugs and crime is a numerically small issue, we might ask if it should cause us to rethink the legal rules for determining responsibility for...
