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Re: BCP available OTC? From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@yahoo.com) Sun Jan 8 14:41:44 2006 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: GA12L@aol.com: "Re: BCP available OTC?" Previous message: LCLEMOS@aol.com: "Re: BCP available OTC?" In reply to: LCLEMOS@aol.com: "Re: BCP available OTC?" Next in thread: fran wilson: "Re: BCP available OTC?" Reply: fran wilson: "Re: BCP available OTC?" There has been review of the relative R&B (Risks and benefits) and that the balance is such that they are probably less risky than much that is OTC - as in the OTC Prilosec and NSAIDs and such. I do provide OCPs if an appointment is made. I have thought about having a set of screening questions and now I will actually make up the list of screening questions that have to be answered in addition to making that appointment. Maybe I will add that she has to come in and fill out a patient registration sheet and sign for outside records to be released to me in addition to answering the questions before giving the prescription. Even if the R&B is such that I think they should be OTC, the other posters are right - if the person takes an OTC and gets in trouble it is a lot different than if she gets a prescription and then gets in trouble. Joanne At Sun, 8 Jan 2006, LCLEMOS@aol.com wrote: > >In a message dated 1/8/2006 11:36:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, >haciski@earthlink.net writes: > >Now is that not odd, keeping in mind that BCP are about to become "over >the counter" in some states? > >Where? I have heard of Emergency Contraceptives (EC for Gail) being OTC and >more commonly "pharmacist prescribed" but not Birth Control Pills ...Laurie >in ME -- Joanne Bulley, MD Keene, NH, USA "Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is." — Duke Ellington, American jazz artist (1899-1974). Next message: GA12L@aol.com: "Re: BCP available OTC?" Previous message: LCLEMOS@aol.com: "Re: BCP available OTC?" In reply to: LCLEMOS@aol.com: "Re: BCP available OTC?" Next in thread: fran wilson: "Re: BCP available OTC?" Reply: fran wilson: "Re: BCP available OTC?"

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