| Geschreven door Family Practice Management |
| wo 05.10.2011 |
| A bill introduced by Sen. John Rockefeller, D-W.Va., that would require physicians to undergo mandatory education as a condition for prescribing certain drugs, such as opioids, has triggered a letter protesting the language in the bill and outlining the extensive education family physicians undergo that makes them fully qualified to prescribe opioids without resorting to mandatory education. In the September letter to Rockefeller, AAFP Board Chair Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., of Waco, Texas, cites AAFP policy, which opposes legislation or other actions that would require mandatory education of family physicians as a condition for prescribing specific drugs, including opioids. Read more |
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