Off Script- You might not want to be so hasty in writing off-hand prescriptions for your friends and family.

Conclusion We went into medicine to help people. It seems so easy to just write the antibiotic prescription when a nurse says she has a UTI and she tells you that she even dipped her own urine. Don’t get me wrong: having the privilege of writing prescriptions is a perk of the profession. However, we need to follow the policies that we’ve agreed to through our board of medicine (appropriate evaluation and documentation), not use hospital equipment for work not involving hospital patients, and be aware of the malpractice risk when we care for people off the books. Dr. Silverman is chairman of emergency medicine at the Virgina Hospital Center and is a partner at Emergency Medicine Associates. He is also the author of the book Director’s Corner, available on Amazon. The post Off Script- You might not want to be so hasty in writing off-hand prescriptions for your friends and family. appeared first on Emergency Physicians Monthly.
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