Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Doctor to Be Tried for Online Prescription of SSRI

A Colorado doctor who prescribed an anti-depressant to a patient over the Internet without ever seeing him will go on trial in California on charges of practicing medicine without a license in that state, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. The patient, a 19-year-old Stanford University student, committed suicide in 2005.

2 comments:

GA said...

oh my goodness! let's hope that he gets convicted. these are the people we are supposed to be able to trust...

susan said...

BP Type II Girl-Agree totally. BTW, you have a rocking blog. HOpe to read more of you!

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