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It's your fault, not the doctors that legally gave you drugs goy!

• IvyMike 11y ago
  Doctor shopping usually means going to multiple doctors and keeping them in the dark about each other. Whether or not you agree this should be a crime (see UnoriginalGuy's comments), current laws do make this a crime. And it's hard to imagine how the doctors could be implicated in that crime--essentially, they are the ones being duped.
  • phkahler 11y ago
    But isn't the point of the database to allow doctors to know if there are interactions with other things a patient may be taking? Is other prescription information hidden unless there is a conflict, or does each doctor have access to the patients prescription history? If they can see the history, then they should be able to decide if he's seeing multiple doctors to get more drugs. If that history is hidden from his doctor, why should the police get to look just because? At a higher level, let's assume for a moment that 3rd party data should not be protected by the 4th amendment. That does not mean the database maintainer is obligated to hand over records to the authorities. It just means they can if they want to without violating a persons rights. The DB owner is certainly allowed to say "come back with a warrant" with will of course require probable cause.