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[quote=Anonymous]Doctors tend to “fire” patients for multiple no shows, or non adherence. Not necessarily garden variety non adherence like “I stopped taking the Flovent because I felt better, now I’m wondering why I’m coughing again?” Or “I never scheduled the X-ray because I got busy and my back was feeling a little better anyways”. I’m talking like, refusing a diagnostic work up or refusing to try medication X before moving on to medication Y despite medication X being a safer choice for the patient. That’s fine if you don’t want to start with medication X but I can’t in good conscience prescribe you medication Y without at least trying something safer first. So if your only goal is to get prescribed medication Y, as opposed to work with me to try to get to the bottom of your symptoms, then yeah, you should go elsewhere to someone who will just prescribe medication Y without further work up. And since some patients “do their research” before coming to see me , I get a lot of patients like this, that have a treatment plan in mind and don’t want to hear anything else about it. Fine, but you can’t just buy a prescription from me with your copay, my license is on the line here.[/quote]

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