I thought that Flanigan\u2019s article brought up a lot of interesting points, but overall, I did not find it convincing. From the moment of reading the thesis\/goal of Flanigan\u2019s argument, I felt that changing the structure of the prescription process so that patients can legally self-medicate did not make sense because prescriptions exist for a reason. Prescriptions are supposed to be an expert telling another person what they need to do. Flanigan related prescriptions to paternalism because I think of paternalism as someone forcing their own cultures and\/or beliefs on others. While technically a medical opinion is the doctor\u2019s own \u201cbelief,\u201d because the doctor is an expert who went through many additional years of schooling, he or she can be classified as an expert which makes it different.<\/p>\n
Through the next section, I agreed with her entire support of DIC, but as she continued on to turn the logic towards self-medication, I started to take issue with her connections. For example, on page 582, she claims \u201cprescription-only regimes actually encourage dangerous drug use,\u201d I view this more as an issue with the FDA\u2019s certification process because no exceptionally risky drugs are supposed to be allowed on the market in the first place.<\/p>\n
To be fair, I did form an opinion about as soon as I read the thesis, so my reading of the remaining part of the article could have possibly been skewed by this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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