Foremost our world is becoming more infected with many more diseases and more frequent now than in the fifties. More stress put on doctors to diagnose or find what caused the sickness and finding preventives. Doctors are heroes that we trust with our lives and suspect then to be able to care for us. But physicians are only human, people make mistakes that result in consequences. Is your doctor stoned? Physicians that continue to work while on substances and abusing their rights as a doctor. When compared to the general public, physicians' tend to protect their workplace performance and image rather than their life outside of work. Money over morals. Some perform surgeries while stoned and possible injuring and even killing unsuspecting patients in result.
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Most doctors that are in their practice are possibly under the influence of prescription narcotics and putting patients at risk. While there is no federal law on the issue, the problem of doctors on drugs has become so bad that lawmakers in California have proposed a law that would require random drug testing of any doctor with hospital privileges. Drug testing also would be required after major mistakes, such as a "preventable deaths." The proposed law is modeled after the Federal Aviation Administration's drug testing program for airline
Most doctors that are in their practice are possibly under the influence of prescription narcotics and putting patients at risk. While there is no federal law on the issue, the problem of doctors on drugs has become so bad that lawmakers in California have proposed a law that would require random drug testing of any doctor with hospital privileges. Drug testing also would be required after major mistakes, such as a "preventable deaths." The proposed law is modeled after the Federal Aviation Administration's drug testing program for airline