Nonsense. Patients are all the time on drugs their doctors don't know
about. They are adults and surely the responsibility is on them to act
in their own best interests by reading and following the instructions.
They don't tell me when they take alcohol, nicotine or cannabis, more
life-threatening than the low-dose COC I dare say.
And of course you'd expect the pharmacist to have a proper consultation,
like they do with me when I go to buy iron tablets "does your doctor
know you're taking these?" the assistant says "Yes" I reply, thinking
how do I know? he may have forgotten - and in any case not wishing to
discuss the matter in front of the long row of people waiting to buy
cough linctus.
F
Jeff Green wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/yvmlfm
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> Dr Nigel Sparrow, vice chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said any
> changes must be carefully thought through.
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> "The important thing is that records must be shared.
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> "Patients can't be on drugs that their doctors don't know about, and
> the pharmacist would have to know about someone's history of
> thrombosis and high blood pressure before they prescribe the pill.
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