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that's mostly all doctors do anyway is prescribe so they get their kickbacks. half the nation is on drugs they dont need and the side effects are making them sicker and killing them. me I stay far away from them, and I aint paying no stinkin fine either
Would you take a second and get a clue? There are no 'kickbacks' and no one likes wasting their time with this paper-pushing b.s.
OK, so which part of OTC do you not understand. Sunscreen is not a medically regulated substance. Nor does tylenol. Or band-aids. Also, since I am not a complete moron and use common sense I wouldn't even start to think that my child would need a perscription for something as innocuous as sunscreen.
The part about side effects. Tylenol is regulated. I'm not sure about sunscreen, but it does have to be what it says it is, eg. SPF 30, etc. We're a little better about not allowing snake oil to be sold to cure cancer these days.
Agreed. Can't tell you how many people are wasting tax payer money coming to my ED asking for school notes for their kids who have the sniffles. When I was in school, my mom's note was good enough. Now you have to have a doctor's note. What a bunch of crap.
In our school district, that is only necessary for kids with "excessive" absences. Often, kids will need a note verifying that they have been at the dr's office, or that they are not contagious and OK to go back to school/sports.
I was actually shocked to find out that stupidity seems to be contagious. Now schools have went beyond requiring you to have a doctors note to have prescriptions. Now if your child sunburns and needs sun screen, you much take your child to a doctor to get a note so he or she can apply sunscreen when going outside for recess or Phys Ed. And stupid Americans wonder why medical cost are so high. When I was in school, we did not have any such non sense. You could carry asprin, caffine or any over the counter medication. And Copper Tone was not even an issue. What next? A prescription for chapstick?
I can guarantee somewhere the school put sunscreen on a kid who had a allergic reaction that caused a law suit. Schools are deathly scared of law suits as it is the tax payer who pays for law suits.
This article which was in 2005 sounds like the schools defending themselves from a lawsuit.
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I can guarantee somewhere the school put sunscreen on a kid who had a allergic reaction that caused a law suit. Schools are deathly scared of law suits as it is the tax payer who pays for law suits.
This article which was in 2005 sounds like the schools defending themselves from a lawsuit.
The schools should not be putting anything on or in anybody but I as a PARENT certainly should be able to send a kid to school with sunscreen or a Tylenol. If the school wants a note, I will give them one. But I am NOT going to pay a doctor to get a note.
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