“Doctors are much more likely these days to get into trouble for failing to manage someone’s pain than for writing an [inappropriate] prescription for OxyContin.”

“Doctors are much more likely these days to get into trouble for failing to manage someone’s pain than for writing an [inappropriate] prescription for OxyContin.”
Physicians are advised “to understand that practicing medicine will always incur some risk, so find a happy medium. … If you’re loosey-goosey with your prescription pad, you’ll have all kinds of problems. If you’re tight with your prescription pad, you’ll have problems too.”