Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:09 am
As for this stupid business of "changing your prescription" - it really is absurd legalistic gobbledygook that should be challenged and changed.
If the software creates a "prescription" that shouldn't be tampered with, then obviously, nobody who is not a qualified physician should tamper with it, and the people who do create the prescription (in the machine) should sign it digitally to identify them as the person who created this Rx , and they should be personally liable for any mistakes they make.
As a matter of fact, anyone who has a "prescription" put into the machine by the DME or RT should have them sign a document where they expect full responsibility for "creating" that prescription in the machine and for any untoward results etc. And if, as we've recently read for more than one member, the machine was wrong or the so called Rx was wrong, or both were, well that's malpractice, isn't it?
Any lawyer memeber out there in the mood to create this document for us so we can try to use for haggling with DME in order to recieve the operator's manual?
If the DMEs, RTs maintain they are not creating an RX, just filling it, like a pharmacist, then here is what happens: When a doctor prescribes a course of antibiotics I am told to take it all, and at the times prescribed. The whole bunch of pills is given to me by the pharmacist, And I the patient am in control of how much I take. I do what the doctor orders - but no one forces me to take those pills, and no one says there's a law against my taking more or less than prescribed because I would be (gasp!) changing my prescription.
The same is true of the cm. prescription for cpap.
The prescription is written on paper and signed by the doctor. And no doctor will accept liability for the Rx put into the machine by an RT or DME.
O.
If the software creates a "prescription" that shouldn't be tampered with, then obviously, nobody who is not a qualified physician should tamper with it, and the people who do create the prescription (in the machine) should sign it digitally to identify them as the person who created this Rx , and they should be personally liable for any mistakes they make.
As a matter of fact, anyone who has a "prescription" put into the machine by the DME or RT should have them sign a document where they expect full responsibility for "creating" that prescription in the machine and for any untoward results etc. And if, as we've recently read for more than one member, the machine was wrong or the so called Rx was wrong, or both were, well that's malpractice, isn't it?
Any lawyer memeber out there in the mood to create this document for us so we can try to use for haggling with DME in order to recieve the operator's manual?
If the DMEs, RTs maintain they are not creating an RX, just filling it, like a pharmacist, then here is what happens: When a doctor prescribes a course of antibiotics I am told to take it all, and at the times prescribed. The whole bunch of pills is given to me by the pharmacist, And I the patient am in control of how much I take. I do what the doctor orders - but no one forces me to take those pills, and no one says there's a law against my taking more or less than prescribed because I would be (gasp!) changing my prescription.
The same is true of the cm. prescription for cpap.
The prescription is written on paper and signed by the doctor. And no doctor will accept liability for the Rx put into the machine by an RT or DME.
O.