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...arbitrary cap on the number of dispensaries is a faulty way of bringing a problematic situation under control. "It's the prerogative of local government if they want to establish regulations that limit the number of facilities in a city or county. We would prefer that the market, the patient demand, dictate the number of facilities that would exist, or that the quality of the operation did," says Kris Hermes, spokesman for Americans for Safe Access, an advocacy group for prescription...
...Patient registration in the state is voluntary, so it is impossible to get an exact count of how many patients utilize dispensaries. However, Hermes estimates that among the more than 300,000 patients statewide, tens of thousands reside in Los Angeles. "Now is the time to better evaluate what those caps mean. It may mean that demand is concentrated in a few spots in the city, and that can create its own set of problems and unintended consequences - perhaps lines out the door or lack of competition creating more of a monoculture. It's important to keep that competition going...
Though three of these drugs increase suicidal thoughts, Dr. Donald B. Condie, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, said that suicidal side effects are generally not known to be additive and that it is fairly common for a patient to be taking more than one anti-depressant...
Brigham and Women’s psychiatrist Dr. Barry S. Fogel said that depending on the facts and details of the case, the practitioners could have indeed failed in their responsibilities towards their patient...
...take care of the poor," she points out. "We had 250,000 patient visits last year in this one clinic. We'll have even more this year. We have staff people who speak Vietnamese, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Portuguese and English. Many of the people we see are uninsured. The costs are enormous. That's why I'm a fiscal conservative. Working here, I have...