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Do you feel doctors prescribe medications too fast?
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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 187955" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>My answer is yes, but I think it's really easy to blame doctors for being quick to prescribe medications but I think there are issues beyond physicians into societal expectations. One is that we have made a significant societal shift over the past three decades to where mothers are expected to work. My pediatrician's (who I think highly of) soapbox is that he is constantly being pressured by parents to write a prescription for something for their child so they can get back to work. And I am positive that we couldn't have gone the long-term medication free route if our family didn't have the flexibility of an at-home mom. Please understand that I'm not assigning blame here, but 40 years ago there were far more in tact, 2 parent families with financial stability and a parent at home. </p><p> </p><p>The second societal change I think that has contributed is the increase in academic expectations, graduation requirements, and legal mandates for kids to stay in school. Education circles talk a great deal about individualizing instruction but in reality there's a lot of expectations for conformity that weren't there 100 years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 187955, member: 701"] My answer is yes, but I think it's really easy to blame doctors for being quick to prescribe medications but I think there are issues beyond physicians into societal expectations. One is that we have made a significant societal shift over the past three decades to where mothers are expected to work. My pediatrician's (who I think highly of) soapbox is that he is constantly being pressured by parents to write a prescription for something for their child so they can get back to work. And I am positive that we couldn't have gone the long-term medication free route if our family didn't have the flexibility of an at-home mom. Please understand that I'm not assigning blame here, but 40 years ago there were far more in tact, 2 parent families with financial stability and a parent at home. The second societal change I think that has contributed is the increase in academic expectations, graduation requirements, and legal mandates for kids to stay in school. Education circles talk a great deal about individualizing instruction but in reality there's a lot of expectations for conformity that weren't there 100 years ago. [/QUOTE]
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