Dear Dr.: Coroner's letter telling of a patient's overdose death shifts prescribing habits
Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
Addressed directly to the doctor, the letter arrived in a plain business envelope with a return address of the San Diego County medical examiner’s office. Its contents were intended, ever so carefully, to focus the physician on a national epidemic of opioid abuse — and his or her possible role...