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Writer's pictureDr. Gerda Maissel

The Foglight #14 - The Pendulum Swings to Under Prescribing: When Doctors Miss the Person in Front of Them

Updated: Oct 4

Issue 14: August, 2024

In This Issue: Is it too hard to get small amounts of certain medications?


Overprescribing of narcotics by well meaning physicians intending to relieve pain contributed to the opioid epidemic we are living in now. The pendulum has swung from over prescribing to under prescribing, as doctors, constrained by time and rigid protocols, often miss the nuances of individual needs. Read the stories of true stories of two people who experienced this.


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