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Perspective

Aug. 26, 2013

Drug test doctors, their daily decisions demand it

Re: "Drug Test Doctors! Drug Test Lawyers!!," Aug. 22. By Bruce M. Brusavich

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

Bradley I. Kramer makes a compelling argument to drug test lawyers in his column, "Drug Test Doctors! Drug Test Lawyers!!" (Aug. 22). However, I am not sure that all lawyers are engaged in such high-risk practices as doctors with hospital privileges who make life and death decisions everyday or operate on patients where impairment can have tragic outcomes.

As recently pointed out by three doctors in a letter published in...

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