Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > As recent as 2 days ago I saw a patient: On a weekend went to an accredited > practice because of his cough. No history of asthma & on no puffers. Left > the surgery with prescription for an antibiotic and a Symbicort Turbihaler. > The NPS, Medicare, etc. has spend millions educating about PBS, RB & > Authorities. All good medical software displays these indications. Yet the > GP's ignore these instructions displayed on their screen. Yet Doctors who > are suppose to be the cream of intellegence never listens or reads - even if > it is displayed in front of their eyes on a PC screen, otherwise how can > some GP's prscribe drugs on the PBS if patients don't qualify ? This is not > an isolated case. Not only myself, but a lot of other GP's find exactly the > same on a very frequent bases. Maybe the practice uses a program that > allows a prescription to be generated in a millisecond - like I see some > people brag about. >
I had a seventeen year old boy die of asthma under my care. I now have a low threshold for prescribing episodic inhaled steroids. Is the reason for the PBS restriction just on financial criteria? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10796596&dopt=Citation http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/57316/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 http://pt.wkhealth.com/pt/re/adch/abstract.00000740-199504000-00009.htm;jsessionid=FSbJRGDsH45ln2FHjMVNksnZQHMB3JnhR8lFkHsQmnvZgGtQL7V8!736553971!-949856145!8091!-1 David _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
