Though doctors know that perfectly well, many of them feel more useful when they write a prescription — and many patients feel reassured when they get one. The practice not only is useless but ...

A New Jersey doctor has admitted to writing fraudulent prescriptions for which he received about $5 million in insurance payments, U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna said. Brian Sokalsky, 44, of Margate ...

In the context of medical prescriptions, Breyer notes, "it is the fact that the doctor issued an unauthorized prescription that renders his or her conduct wrongful, not the fact of the ...

TEXARKANA, Ark. (KSLA) - A doctor from Texarkana has been sentenced to federal prison for writing unnecessary prescriptions. The Department of Justice (DOJ) says Dr. Lonnie Parker, 59, will spend ...

This story was produced in partnership with KFF Health News. The result is a pilot effort called the Clean Power Prescription program. The initiative aims to help roughly 80 patients with complex ...

A study that the institute released in March found that about 3 percent of California workers' compensation doctors were responsible for writing more than half of the prescriptions for Schedule II ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — A Pinellas County doctor is in jail for allegedly selling and writing more than 550 fake prescriptions for opioids. On top of that, when police served a search warrant at ...

but it's not uncommon for doctors to take calls from patients, hear their concerns, and write prescriptions. If you're dealing with an infection that's treated with antibiotics, this is especially ...

Speaking to Asianet, the doctor said "I write my prescriptions in block letters. The other doctors write illegibly because maybe they are busy. I try my best to write prescriptions legibly even ...

Physicians have explained why their writing on prescription notes is mostly ineligible for readers, clarifying that bad handwriting isn’t peculiar to doctors alone. Though they acknowledged that ...

“We are here about a good doctor who took care of his patients ... required him to take continuing education classes on prescription writing and record keeping. It ordered him to “permanently ...