What about people who want to use it for their weekly trip to their mistress
as well as the two for the wife. What happens when the tabloids find out
that you have prescribed it for a man who visits prostitutes? Who will be
the first to prescribe it for a homosexual couple and risk the wrath of the
tabloids?
It raises so many problems that it needs to be not available on the NHS. The
country cannot afford it. We must resist it as an NHS drug.
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
GP Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton Sheffield S20 5JX
Tel;0114 269 5061 Fax;0114 269 7186
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
http://www.medical-legal.co.uk
"The role of science is not to provide everlasting truth; but rather, to
provide a modest obstacle to everlasting error."
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [log in to unmask]
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Katie Law
>Sent: 12 July 1998 13:57
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Viagra - prescribing policies
>
>
>Someone has suggested:
>
> If you were to allow 2 bonks a week ....
>
>
>But ...
>a) not just talking numbers, which people?
>b) where does the figure 2 come from
>c) is it reasonable to insist the wife attends a joint consultation?
>d) is it reasonable to refuse to prescribe it at all
>e) should they first see a consultant (so increasing cost)
>f) there is no doubt that the wide publicity will bring many impotent
>men out of the cupboards, but is this *really* a medical condition -
>sorting out those who are will be far more difficult than defining the
>difference between a depressive illness and plain unhappiness ....
>--
>Katie Law
>
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