What is it with Oregon?

[5HT2]

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http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/06/naturopaths_can_prescribe_broa.html

SB 327 in Oregon pertaining to naturopaths. Legislators here this year really seem to want everyone in healthcare to be able to prescribe drugs. Passed the house 59 to 1 and the senate 22 to 7. All it needs now is the signature of the gov. Perhaps it has to do with the rain......I don't know. 😕

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

The first user comment was pretty funny....

I can haz dilaudid?

 

[notdeadyet]

This one puzzles me. Isn't the point of naturopaths is that they act as a resource for people who want to treat their ailments WITHOUT prescription medications?

 

[billypilgrim37]

This one puzzles me. Isn't the point of naturopaths is that they act as a resource for people who want to treat their ailments WITHOUT prescription medications?

Xanax is all natural, right? 😉

 

[CAPBonanza]

If the Oregon legislature is going to give prescribing authority to every tom, dick, and harry with post-nominal letters, why even have prescription authority in the first place? They could do like mexico and get your xanax/viagra/whatever for one low price. My fiancee will graduate with a JD degree, she should be able to prescribe whatever she wants...right? Or hey...WebMD could probably do it better than any mere mortal.

 

[BobA]

Actually, I think AstraZeneca just bought the naming rights to Oregon. Please call it by it's new name.

No seriously, though, I bet a lot of this has to do with the Oregon Health Plan which gives everyone cheap insurance. Best way to bring prices down is to increase supply.

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

....I bet a lot of this has to do with the Oregon Health Plan which gives everyone cheap insurance. Best way to bring prices down is to increase supply.

And the fact they have a significant issue with providing services to their communities.

 

[billypilgrim37]

And the fact they have a significant issue with providing services to their communities.

And that the state is filled with a unique concoction of atheist libertarian hippies who still vote democrat and tell the rest of the nation's hipsters what lousy American beer to drink.

Not that there's really anything wrong with PBR.

Seriously, there are just some places that aren't going to make sense no matter what. Any place whose prominent brand of libertarianism calls for deregulation so expansive that it lets naturopaths prescribe drugs is beyond analysis with rational lines of discussion.

My delusional wife wants to move to Portland, and every time she says this, I get this curdled feeling in my stomach.

It's like, I think euthanasia is a pretty good idea. Kinda like communism. Or peanut butter and jelly on pizza. Or hover boards. But I'm not stupid enough to pass any of these things into law! Oregon thinks, "hey, we can look progressive, and we can trim our Medicare rolls! Sweet!" Every other state just sort of slaps their forehead, rolls their eyes, and sighs, "that darn Oregon."

They're all the way on the edge of the continent, minding their own business. Most people missed the exit to Vancouver, Seattle was too expensive, the VW bus didn't have enough gas to get to San Francisco, so they wound up in Oregon. Let's let them be.

 

[CAPBonanza]

Shoddy and sub-standard care is better than no care at all? The illusion of "proper care" is more dangerous than the current situation. If you want to delude yourself into thinking that some one who spent four (?) years studying herbal "medicines" suddenly knows all about beta blockers and antidepressants, continue to do so. I'm only a med student, but I know enough to know that this is a bad idea. As Sir William Osler once said: "He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not, is simple. Teach him."

The idea that medicines are something to be played around with not only misleads legislators and the public, but it will KILL our patients. bottom line.