Dentist Breaks the Law?! You Won’t Believe What Happened
let me tell you one of the things it just annoys me to death in the dental world and it’s not really Dentistry related it’s Pharmacy related so if you’ve had this happen please let me know okay patient comes.
in she’s got a severe facial swelling tooth is dead she wants to keep the tooth I’m sending her to an endodon and I’m putting her on an antibiotic female patient tells me that antibiotics give her a yeast infection now I don’t know what a yeast infection feels like but my wife tells me that they are terrible so I call her in an.
antibiotic and a D I get a phone call about 30 minutes later from the pharmacist regarding the dlu can that we called in and I’m like what is the problem pharmacist tells me well you’re a dentist and I said I’m a dentist but.
I’m also a doctor and she says well do you think that’s a little out of your scope to be calling a dlu Canon for a yeast infection and I said no it’s totally within my scope because I’m calling this patient in an antibiotic and the antibiotic is going to give her a yeast infection and I’m.
This Dentist Crossed the Line Here’s What They Did
going to treat that as well it is a d flucan it is an antifungal it’s not like I’m trying to shove 30 perco set through for a dental infection doesn’t matter and there’s this long pause on the phone like and I said ma’am I don’t know what the problem is here but you are bothering me during my very busy day please don’t call me.
again over this stupid stuff I then proceeded to tell her that I also call dlu can in when we have a fungal infection in the mouth yes we do that as well along with antifungal rinses mouth rinses and there was a long.
pause on the phone and she says oh well I guess I’ll fill it this time and I said ma’am here’s the problem this is not the last time I’m going to call D flucan and if this is going to be a problem I’m going to tell my patient to stop using your Pharmacy oh no we’re talking about an anti- fungal here okay I had something similar happened today when I had a patient came in who had pink eye okay not only are we doctors of the teeth but we look at the entire face as they’re coming in she had pink eye it’s very contagious guess what she.
couldn’t get into the doctor for about five days it’s Christmas time I call the pharmacist I’m like hey I need to call in an antibiotic eye drop for pink eye I get a phone call back it’s a little bit out of your scope don’t you think I’m like no it’s completely within my scope fill the damn prescription hey I’m Ethan I’m a pharmacist.
let’s talk about this Healthcare provider with a God complex this video goes on for like an additional 5 minutes and I did not want to put you guys through it but let’s go through everything he discussed you want.
A Dentist Did WHAT?! (Legal Trouble Explained)
to know what annoys me healthcare providers that are prescribing out of their scope of practice and I’m sorry I’m only a pharmacist but last time I checked your bladder in your eyes are not part of your teeth I am 100% on the pharmacist side.
when it comes to this so important for healthcare providers to understand that God forbid if something happens to a patient it’s going to be on the pharmacist it’s not going to be on the medical doctor or the dentist it it is our job to make sure that the medication is being prescribed.
appropriately by an appropriate provider and now I hope and I’m not going to make any assumptions but I hope that if this dentist is prescribing things that are not related to dental health that he is putting it in the chart and actually telling the patient’s primary care provider because this is how mistakes.
happen because when patients are getting medications from multiple providers and possibly using multiple pharmacies this is where drug interaction can happen side effects can happen like it’s actually extremely irresponsible of a.
When a Dentist Breaks the Law This Happens
provider to be prescribing something that is not under their scope of practice now do I completely agree that yes with antibiotics it could possibly cause a yeast infection that’s correct but it is not wrong for the pharmacist.
to be questioning that because they need a better understanding to document for their own license because you best believe that patient has never taken dlu cam before they have allergic reaction they’re going to BL the pharmacist they’re not going to come after the dentist and you best believe too the.
dentist is going to blame the pharmacy for dispensing it so I’ll give a pass with the jukan because we can document that but the pink eye you know I think it’s really great you’re trying to help a patient out but this is way out of your scope of practice I’m sorry there is no way as the pharmacist at I was working.
I would fill this prescription underneath the dentist because I’m pretty sure if the Board of Pharmacy ever walked in and saw some of the claims we were doing I would be the one getting in trouble not the dentist also.
since this dentist just feels he can prescribe whatever and knows everything I hope he knows that not all pink ey needs antibiotics especially if it’s viral which is the most common that’s going to resolve in 1 to two weeks and also I think it’s really irresponsible to threaten that you’re going to be using.
a different Pharmacy because you can’t assume that the patient’s insurance is going to be able to work at other pharmacies so all you’re doing is actually just putting the patient in an awkward situation and I’m not going to.
put this guy on blast with his name and everything because like that’s not the job on my platform it’s really just to make sure people are informed of reasons why pharmacists may be asking additional questions for.
