Journal of addictive diseases
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This is a review of the most current thinking on physician impairment with regard to definitions, prevalence, etiology, diagnosis, detection, intervention, treatment, treatment outcomes and prevention. The impaired physicians movement needs to be concerned with what is effective.
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To determine the antiemetic drug preferences of practicing adult oncologists and to estimate the frequency of use of marijuana smoke as an antiemetic agent. ⋯ Marijuana in any form was believed to be efficacious for 50% of patients with pre- or post-chemotherapy nausea or vomiting. However, one of four patients who received it complained of bothersome adverse effects. At the time of the study, cannabis was prescribed or recommended relatively infrequently by American clinical oncologists (i.e., those who actually prescribed chemotherapy). Even if it was freely available and restrictions on its use liberalized, smokeable marijuana, according to responses given on this survey, would not be used much more frequently by American oncologists.