I also think it would benefit both the EDs and the PCPs and medicine as a whole if ED doctors could only give one dose of a sample or one dose on a script. To get the other nine doses, the patient would be forced to go to their PCP. I think that would stop the ear infections, etc. from going to the ED pretty quickly. Higher copays may work for the private pay patients but not for the others.


Bert
Pediatrics
Brewer, Maine