Has “professionals oaths” become nothing more than “just words” ?

Hippocratic Oath: Classical Version I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant: To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and […]

DEA Agent: no one should be taking opiates unless they have cancer

As pharmacists we are in a tough spot. I had a DEA agent stand in my pharmacy and watch as a lady handed over a stack of narcotics rxs to the technician. He said no one should be taking those unless they have cancer. ( his words, not mine). This same DEA agent told me […]

Montana: the “land of denial of pain” ?