Comment by droithomme

OK, so am I reading this chart correctly? The top guy issues over 21,000 new opioid prescriptions per year. Not pills, but new, and presumably refill, prescriptions. So that's about 58 prescriptions per day of the year or 84 prescriptions signed per work day. Which is 10.5 per hour. So he spends on average 6 minutes evaluating each case before deciding a new or continuing opioid script is an appropriate treatment.