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Report as: spam offensive Daniel on 12/17/07 at 9pm

Is a doctor without a license really a doctor? The headline suggested doctor bashing but this is more like doctor-impostor bashing. I feel for the professor although it is more likely the alcohol killed his son than the prozac given by the non licensed practitioner.

Report as: spam offensive FoolsGold on 1/02/08 at 4pm

Most if not all such online scripts are issued by 'scrip mill' doctors who are elderly and don't really "see" any patients via the internet anyway.

Many people are prescribed prozac. A subset, often consisting of young adult males particularly those on a low fat diet find suicide ideation increases under prozac.

Little else would have been different had there been a licensed physician who had actually seen the patient.
Its sort of like having an auto accident and findout out that the other driver has no license: it tends to let you off the hook whether you were at fault or not.

Report as: spam offensive FoolsGold on 1/03/08 at 5pm

The question here is: what really would have been different if the meds had been Rx'd by a fully licensed doctor utterly familiar with the drug and with depression. Pretty much the same thing as far as the patient is concerned. Same drug, same alcohol use, etc. Its just some quirk of fate that allows a lawsuit in this case.




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