[Tobra]

That is not what he is talking about, writing controlled substances for themselves. I get the quarterly report from the medical board, I know what goes on at those meetings.

What he is talking about is a bit of a ridiculous situation. For example. Say my brother has a gout attack on a Saturday night, am I not supposed to treat that? Or my kid steps on a broken bottle at the lake, is not stitching that up reasonable? When I was a lad, I woke up in respiratory distress. Mom woke up at 3 in the morning with me standing next to the bed with full on stridor, which is a helluva thing to wake up to. She grabbed me by the wrist, the vein popped out and she hit me with some solumedrol she had in the nightstand. Big whack of steroids did its magic on by throat and the hole went from the eye of a needle back to normal. She took me into their tiny shower room, made a pallet on the floor, turned on the hot water, sat on the commode and kept me under close observation until she went to work. That is an extreme example, but illustrates the ridiculousness of the concept.

The oath says "do no harm" it does not say do nothing. I have done things that are definitely out of my scope of practice at the scene of an accident, or if someone is injured. Grandkid got knocked on his ass playing basketball, and I ran out there and gave him an ice pack and made sure his eyes were tracking and he knew his birthday was next Thursday before he ran over to the bench. Pretty good chance that was illegal

I think Class VI is over the counter, so no antibiotics. Oh, and the whole writing for controlled substances is stupid now in California. I have had to buy prescription pads like 3 times in 4 years. That is totally keeping drugs off the street.