I had to double check everything I prescribed in case I'd made a mistake.
Poised and outspoken, she outlines her typical working week, which includes house-to-house visits, question-and-answer sessions and appointments at the local health post, where she does everything from prescribing drugs to delivering babies.
Despite data showing that plans covering millions of patients trigger only a few hundred complaints a year, a public backlash has forced many managed care plans to retreat, agreeing to pay for almost everything doctors prescribe.
The concept of "double-bind" was raised to describe the complexity of the GPs' role and their feelings of powerlessness in some situations: " If we strictly prescribed everything as recommended in the guidelines…wouldn't we be blamed for over-prescribing compared to our colleagues, thus impacting negatively on the budget of the healthcare system?" (FG4).
They prescribed everything from admissions criteria to how to teach history and maths.
In return, Legal Aid lawyers agreed to drop the more than 40 court orders that prescribed everything from where and when homeless families could sleep to whether bottle warmers and infant formula must be available at city intake offices.
Because the cannabinoid class of drugs is so broad and diverse, encompassing everything from medically prescribed marijuana to varieties of K2, one law cannot realistically ban the group altogether, and so to effectively target the K2 variants that have proven to be dangerous, lawmakers must ban by specific drug name once the substances have been established to be toxic.
"When I was here as a patient, art was the driving force behind a large part of my recovery," says Dan. "If you take time on a psychiatric ward, whether it's specialist or acute, everything is very prescribed.
"It is not the function of civil law to prescribe everything that is morally right and to forbid everything that is morally wrong," he wrote in a 1965 memo advising the church to support the decriminalization of artificial contraception.
Drivers need common sense to prevail and avoid activities that have a detrimental effect on their ability to drive safely but I don't think we need a law that prescribes everything that a driver can or can't do".
