14 July 2003
A doctor in Oakland has written over 7,500 prescriptions for medical marijuana. A medical panel is trying to suspend his license because he is "writing those recommendations without conducting sufficient medical exams and [] improperly maintaining medical records. . . The standard requires physical exam, medical history, mental status exam, follow-ups to ensure that medication or treatment is working."
The good doctor is fighting back arguing that he accomplishes all that when "he spends at least 15 minutes with each patient before recommending marijuana."
Hmmm . . . one might suspect that this doctor's propensity for handing out marijuana for everything from the common cold to full blown AIDs probably got around and that a number of those 15 minute exams were pretty much shams. Just a thought.
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