Some patients are stockpiling Tamiflu. “Last week a patient of mine called about having Tamiflu on hand, and I must have been on the phone with him for 20 minutes. He wanted four prescriptions. We went back and forth on all the issues, and he finally asked, ‘Well, what would you do?'”
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