I must caution people to be careful with this. I just had to fire an office worker for calling in narcotics for an ex office worker. I had to call the DEA and police department as well as talk to my lawyer about it. It was a significant hassle and expense and the liability is significant. In my state, Texas, the medical board is trigger happy to take your license away for stuff like this. Last thing you need is to have your name in the "wall of shame" bulletin from your local state board. The bottom line is that there should be a way for amazing chart to allow medical assistants and ancilliary staff to start a prescription and let the doctor sign off on it. However, the physician should hold final say on prescriptions. Please do not institute work arounds that leave you exposed liability wise. BTW the office worker whom I had to let go was the LAST person I would have suspected... You just never know.
