Medical Economics September 25, 2020
Why won’t they make physicians’ jobs easier?
The practice of medicine has become increasingly challenging over the last several decades. Doctors must struggle to keep abreast of rapidly evolving science and technology while navigating an ever-changing bureaucratic maze of regulations and payment schemes. And it often seems that rather than trying to make our job to care for patients easier, legislators are doing their best to make the practice of medicine more difficult.
The state of Florida provides an excellent example of the increasing hurdles that physicians face as we try to treat patients. Consider Florida’s 2018 law on the prescribing of controlled substances. As a family physician, prescribing these types of medications is already one of my least-favorite activities....
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