Doctors, putting someone else's name on a prescription - Ethics Violation?

Would a Doctor or pharmacist check in and address this issue, please? How is it legal that a Doctor puts his name on a prescription which is held by another person? Or do we just say, oh it involved a conservative so it must be okay?

the drug reps had out to doctors and the doctor in turn gives to patients. BUT every article I read (and saw on the news this AM) says that there was a prescription in his doctor's name. Would truly like that clarified.

said that the doctor's name was on the prescription to protect limbaugh's "privacy." That's clarification enough for me. And why is a lawyer making such a proclamation about the distribution of drugs. Maybe they have something to hide after all.

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It is generally not illegal under Florida law for a physician to prescribe medication in a third party's name if all parties are aware and the doctor documents it correctly, said Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for the state attorney in Palm Beach County. He would not discuss specifics in the Limbaugh case Tuesday.

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http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_177194808.html

So shocking that the liberal media isn't jumping all over that... you know... being so biased against cons and all.

but the penalty varies by schedule. Clearly, if some of the other pills that were found in his possession Schedule II (narcotics), that would mean he's in deep, deep doo doo. If they were all non psychoactive drugs, then his probation officer will have to decide whether or not he still hasn't gotten the point about our drug laws.

The physician will also be due a reprimand.

Some wiggle room is allowed in our laws, like a friend or relative picking up a prescription for someone who is too ill to get into a pharmacy, but that's about it.

Drug samples don't have anyone's name on them, generally, just "this medication may not be dispensed without a physician's prescription." Doctors are given a blank space on which to write a patitent's name and the dosage to be taken.

if any.

I mean, why all the trouble to fill in another's name?
Sample packs for all kinds of meds are given out routinely - my husband likes to get his heart meds this way, specifically for travel (just a blister pack or two).

I guess maybe OxyRush wanted more "quantity" than would have been afforded in a sample pack???

I still cannot believe that it is "not illegal" for a doc to prescribe meds in a 3rd party's name - any doc I know would have just given him a bag of samples!

Does anyone know - was this a US doc or a Dominican Republic doc?