Comments on: Prescription Mistakes http://tgllaw.com/new-york-law-blog/negligence/74/prescription-mistakes Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:51:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Annie Ilene http://tgllaw.com/new-york-law-blog/negligence/74/prescription-mistakes#comment-145 Annie Ilene Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:37:40 +0000 http://ny-law-firm.com/new-york-law-blog/negligence/74/prescription-mistakes#comment-145 To answer your question; "Are doctors prescribing certain narcotics without fully understanding them?" the answer is simple and disgraceful; YES. Very few have even adequate training or education to dispense these dangerous drugs and worst, have relied on the pharmaceutical companies to provide them with information about the drugs. Ever ask the wolf to gaurd the chicken coop? Regarding your articles title "Prescription mistakes", the answer is NO. These are not mistakes. I was taught a mistake is when you don't know better. And it only gets to be used once. Medical agencies and authorities have known since 1999 that an extraordinary amount of death and addiction was on the rise and correlated directly with the obvious lack of training and education given prior to medical graduation. Approx. 8 hours is all the average physician has in pain management, and pain medications ed/instruction. Yet they are given a license to dispense the most dangerous drugs known. Agency's like the FDA have conducted many, many investigations and hearings on this subject, documenting horror stories from families and even doctors. Yet they failed to act on addressing the contribution that the lack of educ/training had on all these prescription related deaths and addictions. Sadly, and shamefully,nor did the major medical professional or educational institutions make any moves to reduce the destruction and havoc. The suggestion to address the doctors, who were/are giving these drugs out like candy, could have been advice given by a kindergartener. It was that plainly evident. Why has this taken so long? I wonder; if the drug profits would have reached the Billions, if direct control of the doctors had been exercised back then. Well, no, actually I don't wonder. The pharmaceutical company's manipulated the doctors prescriiption practices of opiates, based on self-serving junk science in the early '90's. The doctors blindly became more liberal in dispensing opiates for pain. Many of them, like the cases involved in methadone disregarded dosing schedules, which resulted in unwanted overdoses. Or addictions. If a person doesn't "fully understand" something, mistakes can happen. But when it becomes obvious to those involved that the mistake was based on a lack of knowlege, the ensuing incidents/behaviors are no longer "mistakes". Those actions are decisive and purposefull. It's nothing short of a disgrace. To answer your question; “Are doctors prescribing certain narcotics without fully understanding them?” the answer is simple and disgraceful; YES. Very few have even adequate training or education to dispense these dangerous drugs and worst, have relied on the pharmaceutical companies to provide them with information about the drugs. Ever ask the wolf to gaurd the chicken coop? Regarding your articles title “Prescription mistakes”, the answer is NO. These are not mistakes. I was taught a mistake is when you don’t know better. And it only gets to be used once. Medical agencies and authorities have known since 1999 that an extraordinary amount of death and addiction was on the rise and correlated directly with the obvious lack of training and education given prior to medical graduation. Approx. 8 hours is all the average physician has in pain management, and pain medications ed/instruction. Yet they are given a license to dispense the most dangerous drugs known. Agency’s like the FDA have conducted many, many investigations and hearings on this subject, documenting horror stories from families and even doctors. Yet they failed to act on addressing the contribution that the lack of educ/training had on all these prescription related deaths and addictions. Sadly, and shamefully,nor did the major medical professional or educational institutions make any moves to reduce the destruction and havoc.

The suggestion to address the doctors, who were/are giving these drugs out like candy, could have been advice given by a kindergartener. It was that plainly evident. Why has this taken so long? I wonder; if the drug profits would have reached the Billions, if direct control of the doctors had been exercised back then. Well, no, actually I don’t wonder. The pharmaceutical company’s manipulated the doctors prescriiption practices of opiates, based on self-serving junk science in the early ’90’s. The doctors blindly became more liberal in dispensing opiates for pain. Many of them, like the cases involved in methadone disregarded dosing schedules, which resulted in unwanted overdoses. Or addictions. If a person doesn’t “fully understand” something, mistakes can happen. But when it becomes obvious to those involved that the mistake was based on a lack of knowlege, the ensuing incidents/behaviors are no longer “mistakes”. Those actions are decisive and purposefull. It’s nothing short of a disgrace.

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