tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2115140830988428493.post762578104002320347..comments2023-12-20T09:36:53.894-05:00Comments on The Singing Pen of Doctor Jen: Medicine needs to join the 21st centuryJennifer L. Middleton MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13860951795645903755noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2115140830988428493.post-61104688878199154422012-10-11T09:32:01.231-04:002012-10-11T09:32:01.231-04:00Kitty - whoa. No wonder insurance companies feel t...Kitty - whoa. No wonder insurance companies feel that they have to monitor what docs order so carefully.Jennifer L. Middleton MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13860951795645903755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2115140830988428493.post-4123107555347864082012-10-10T06:41:19.071-04:002012-10-10T06:41:19.071-04:00Jen, I am sure that you were doing the best thing ...Jen, I am sure that you were doing the best thing for the patient, because I know you care. Sometimes there are doctors who prescribe the newest thing because they think it must be the best no matter what, when the patient might be willing to accept "pretty good" at a generic cost. Perhaps the insurance company thinks you are like our earnest pediatrician who prescribed my infant daughter an $80/month allergy nasal spray when there are $10 copay generics (I'm sure that $40 was in the fancy egg-shaped squeeze bottle lever design), or a specialist who prescribed me a $350/supply cream when a $3.25/supply generic pill would have accomplished matters the same way, and did just fine when the condition reoccurred. I paid for the $80 spray once, and never refilled the prescription. The cream/pill was a different matter, but I made sure I asked for something cheaper the second time around with a different doctor who wasn't using life-in-danger scare tactics. Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05694740423082083234noreply@blogger.com