Dr. Nightingale, D.O.

So recently we've been seeing a lot of scripts from a local doctor who from now on shall be referred to as Dr. Nightingale. Now, Dr. Nightingale is a D.O. rather than an M.D. I have nothing against this. I saw a D.O. for years before she moved away to take care of her elderly parents. I also knew on the surface that D.O. stood for Dr. of Osteopathic Medicine while M.D. stood for Dr. of Medicine. I didn't really know what the differences were, so I decided to Google it. My search turned up this link: . Very good information. So after reading this it seemed to me that a D.O. was more about PREVENTING disease and health problems that treating it. This dear readers(or reader, cuz there aren't that many of you I'm sure)simply confirmed my opinion that Dr. Nightingale was not a human but instead a duck and every script she writes is the equivalent of opening her mouth and letting out am ear splitting QUACK!!

Seriously, this womans license is in as much danger as an abandoned wildebeest calve with a broken leg surrounded by a pride of starving lions. A typical prescription from this womans office reads like this:

Jane Doe

Adipex 37.5 # 30 1 po qam 1 refill

Phendimetrazine 35 mg # 90 1 po tid prn breakthrough hunger 2 refills

Lortab 7.5 # 30 1 qhs 1 refill


Now, Jane Doe is usually a 5 foot 6 inch, 21 year old who weighs about 110 to 115 pounds. Thats NOT overweight obviously. She shouldn't even possess that prescription to begin with and its very irresponsible on Nightingales part. My pharmacists have come to the conclusion that the Lortab is being used to knock them out at night after shes had them hyped up all day. Is it just me or could these girls develop some BP problems from this?? Not to mention the addiction to uppers and downers. She has recently begun to add Androgel Pump to that script as well as Synthroid. I thought doctors had to take an oath to "Do no harm"? Have any of you ever seen a doc do something like this? Is this more common than I thought?