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Clinics Clinics and Providing Evidence for Patients for Legal Proceedings.
- Thread starter GrownHealth
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Yeah you should. If these clinics see a drop off in their applications because it becomes a more widely known point of comparison that they are much worse at backing up their patients in cases of discrimination against a patient using their prescribed medicine then they will either change their ways or they'll watch their market share shrink to dust. Add it as a data column in the clinics comparison section.
I'm not a huge fan of the highly privatised and costly nature of MC, but one advantage of it is that all the usual capitalist tactics for voting with your feet will work.
Even if they want to charge a fee for giving paperwork, fine, but there should be a process and it should be efficient. There should be a tab in the clinic portal just as there is one to request a travel letter. Most people would rather pay £50 for a letter and get the matter over with in a few weeks with a satisfactory conclusion than have it drag on and on for free. I'm sure there's plenty of lawyers out there who wouldn't mind an easy life at £50 a pop for an easy legal letter.
It shouldn't be necessary, and I can respect a clinic taking that point of view to an extent - why should they need to resource staff to deal with their patients doing a legal activity - but while there is still a significant problem of power-tripping, discriminatory and ill-informed police, prosecutors, judges and magistrates, then there should be a way for a clinic to support their patients with basic information they already hold and can easily format into a legal response to a bad case.
I'm not a huge fan of the highly privatised and costly nature of MC, but one advantage of it is that all the usual capitalist tactics for voting with your feet will work.
Even if they want to charge a fee for giving paperwork, fine, but there should be a process and it should be efficient. There should be a tab in the clinic portal just as there is one to request a travel letter. Most people would rather pay £50 for a letter and get the matter over with in a few weeks with a satisfactory conclusion than have it drag on and on for free. I'm sure there's plenty of lawyers out there who wouldn't mind an easy life at £50 a pop for an easy legal letter.
It shouldn't be necessary, and I can respect a clinic taking that point of view to an extent - why should they need to resource staff to deal with their patients doing a legal activity - but while there is still a significant problem of power-tripping, discriminatory and ill-informed police, prosecutors, judges and magistrates, then there should be a way for a clinic to support their patients with basic information they already hold and can easily format into a legal response to a bad case.
