The Run on Tamiflu — Should Physicians Prescribe on Demand?

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Abstract
“Doctor, I need a prescription for that bird flu drug.” If recent newspaper headlines are any indication,1 this request has been repeated tens of thousands of times around the country this fall. So much oseltamivir (Tamiflu) has been prescribed — presumably for personal stockpiling in case of an avian influenza pandemic, given that the human influenza season has not yet begun — that at the end of October, the drug's manufacturer stopped shipping it to the United States.

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