You are a medical assistant at the local medical care practice. Your notice that your aunt who suffers from chronic pain from a neck injury carries two bottles of hydrocodone in her purse. "Two doctors write prescriptions for me," she tells you. She also confides that neither doctor knows about the other one and states, "that's the only way I can get enough medication to control my pain."

Question #1:

Would you report your aunt's deception to the physicians named o her prescriptions? Explain your answer.

Question #2:

What would you tell your aunt?

Question #3:

How can physicians guard against such abuses by patients