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Re: kayak_wench post# 150033

Sunday, 04/05/2015 10:55:40 PM

Sunday, April 05, 2015 10:55:40 PM

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You are 100% correct, kayak wrench


In my personal experience it isn't the doctor that drives changes in my prescriptions, but my insurance company.




I don’t think physicians are going to change a patient who is on a stable, effective chronic pain regimen to an entirely different medication just because naltrexone-based ADT becomes available. I don’t even like to change BP meds from one ACE-inhibitor to another or one calcium channel blocker to another. It creates problems, phone calls, confusion, phantom side effects, unhappy patients. The transition away from one medication to another will only happen when the patient-physician conversation can start with the one of the following phrases:

A. State/federal law mandates that I do this…
B. Your insurance company will only pay for this new medication…
C. The FDA has taken your medication off the market…


http://www.theonion.com/articles/physician-shoots-off-a-few-adderall-prescriptions,35718/

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