[arkades]

> Are doctors doing anything to end the requirement that patients get prescriptions for drugs?

(A) Physicians are not some monolithic block. Whatever ones stance on the AMA, they are a single lobbying group. They are not the collective noun for “doctor.”

(B) I, personally, do plenty. I left health insurance for clinical work because I saw how few healthcare leaders understood how to forge more effective care models in the current landscape, and I wanted to do better for people.

(C) I am unaware of any movement among physicians to give people unfettered access to prescription medications (not to say that I’m omniscient - such a movement may exist outside my knowledge.) I would not support such a movement if it existed; it would do massive harm to the public.

[yeahitslikethat]

What evidence supports your claim it would do massive harm to the public?

My evidence for the contrary is any of the countries in the world where prescriptions aren't required.