Sure, the company is set up as a pill mill, but these prescribers aren't conscripts. They know who they're signing up to work for, and they know they're signing up to do a pretty easy job that makes money from the comfort of their home. The companies don't take an ethical oath, but the prescribers did.
Perplexed - 5 weeks ago
I am stunned by the results of this poll.
If the question was: Who is most responsible when 1 prescriber in a group is acting differently from the rest, I could understand a debate between the prescriber or the company that is allowing it.
But in this scenario, we have a whole company that is regularly prescribing without a clear medical need. The company is set up to meet this need, their processes clearly make this easy, prescribers are clearly incentivized for this goal. The prescribers are clearly complicit. But the organization has set the direction, the prescribers are just the rowers. Anyone who stops rowing will just be replaced.
Grbuckeye - 5 weeks ago
I struggled between prescriber and company but ultimately settled on the company. If a prescriber does their job and only grants requests with a legit medical need and ends up writing too few prescriptions the company will simply find a provider who is willing to play their game.
the Patient
Who is *most* responsible? Surely the patient.
Sure, the company is set up as a pill mill, but these prescribers aren't conscripts. They know who they're signing up to work for, and they know they're signing up to do a pretty easy job that makes money from the comfort of their home. The companies don't take an ethical oath, but the prescribers did.
I am stunned by the results of this poll.
If the question was: Who is most responsible when 1 prescriber in a group is acting differently from the rest, I could understand a debate between the prescriber or the company that is allowing it.
But in this scenario, we have a whole company that is regularly prescribing without a clear medical need. The company is set up to meet this need, their processes clearly make this easy, prescribers are clearly incentivized for this goal. The prescribers are clearly complicit. But the organization has set the direction, the prescribers are just the rowers. Anyone who stops rowing will just be replaced.
I struggled between prescriber and company but ultimately settled on the company. If a prescriber does their job and only grants requests with a legit medical need and ends up writing too few prescriptions the company will simply find a provider who is willing to play their game.