Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all the witnesses for coming here today to enlighten us on the things that we probably don't know.
Dr. Martin, you were talking about patients demanding drugs from doctors. I have a family doctor, and whenever a patient walked in and said “I need this medication, Doctor”, he used to say, “I'm the doctor. You're not the doctor, so you don't tell me what to give you.”
I believe there is some abuse in prescribing medications. What kind of abuse is there in the system, when doctors are caving in to the demands of the patient and writing something the patient may not even need, or may end up writing a prescription for an expensive drug the patient may request? What kind of abuse do you think could be there in the system?