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To: DaiS who wrote (9273)	6/6/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: VLAD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23519

DaiS, It's called malpractice insurance. IMO the AMA should outline this as standard protocol. As TUNA said, it is pressure from the insurance companies that will help change the Viagra story.

To: DaiS who wrote (9273)	6/6/1998 3:13:00 PM
From: Zebra 365	Respond to of 23519

<<In the USA do not PCPs have insurance to cover them against the risks you outline?>> Dais We also have car insurance. That does not mean we will mow down pedestrians with impunity or ram our car into a tree if we can help it. I've been practicing for 18 years and never even had a lawsuit filed against me. The great curse of a malpractice suit is not the potential loss of money, but the continual harrassment of being involved in a legal battle for at least two years if not longer. However, there is a more important side than lawsuits. Most practicing physicians did not go into medicine just for money. We actually want to help people without hurting them. I have prescribed both Viagra and MUSE, and when I do so, it is based on the needs of the individual patient in light of his entire medical picture. This is so that we keep the risk/benefit ratio as low as possible. I could make substantially more money if I were to practice lousy "drive-by" medicine. I choose not to do so. Most of my colleagues choose so also. The exception makes the news, not the rule. I'm certainly not implying that prescribing Viagra is "drive-by" medicine and prescribing MUSE is not. Just making the point that it is not the fear of lawsuits that set American medical standards above many others, it is the character, ethics, and compassion of the majority of American physicians. Zebra