I suspect that people will allocate a certain amount of their time to
managing their medical condition. Such management includes seeing us,
getting medicines, thinking about exercise and diet etc etc.
SO taking up a chunk of that on frequent administrivial stuff like
handling monthly repeats will reduce the important patient contribution
to their own health.
This idea has not received prominence anywhere that I know, previously.
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 23:18, Jeff Green wrote:
> GP said he might start with stable thyroxin patients –
>
> I suggested that if they were stable why not just write a script for a
> years supply?
> Guess the reaction ;-)
I suspect it had more to do with control-freakery and protection of
outmoded business practices than with common sense or economic
rationality.
I'm appalled by people having to present, in person, repeat requests
monthly for statins, so making a monthly job for Thyroxine at a penny a
tablet seems totally bizarre.
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Adrian Midgley FLOSS regularly
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