DR. PATRICIA A. FARRELL

As a child, I knew our family physician as a kindly guy who came to the house with his small medical bag, checked my temperature, wrote a script and left. You didn't have to go to his office, he came to you. Times have changed in many things and in medicine it has been a huge change, but one thing is coming back; docs are making house calls. Of course, it's not your friendly doc you've known for years, but a new doc each time because they work for a service that makes house c

Not too long ago, and possibly still to some extent, it was considered unethical for physicians to sell medications from their offices. The belief is/was that such transactions would spur treatment in the service of sales, but that may have been happening all along. Next time you go to your dermatologist or dentist or ophthalmologist, take a look around for brochures and advertisements for products with the practitioner's name on them. You may find that dermatologists have al