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UK doctors are banned or at least very strongly discouraged from writing prescriptions for family members iirc, something unusual even in many other Western countries.
It's not banned, but it's something that's frowned upon by the GMC, I can't really speak as to the degree of enforcement, but my impression is that they usually don't cause a ruckus unless you hand them narcotics or benzos and so on.
I think it's retarded myself, in India everyone accepts one of the perks of being a doctor (or having one in the family), is the massive benefit it gives you someone that is on call for you, invested in your welfare, and willing to take your issues even more seriously than is the norm. I have never seen it cause any conflict of interest or other things the GMC wrings their hands about. Thankfully I don't have all that much in the way of very close family left in the UK, so it's largely moot.
But UK doctors are only now pushing back against how hard they've been cucked, maybe they'll get around to this eventually. After all, I doubt lawyers get in trouble for representing family in court do they? (Never checked)
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