Instead, the doctor-patient contact is a legal necessity in order for the patient to acquire a prescription or such devices as syringes and asthma inhalers - all of which can be resold on the street (Passley, Brodt, and Jones, 1993; Levy and Luo, 2005).There is also evidence that physicians have responded to Medicare's attempts to ratchet down their fees by reducing nonprice amenities, spending le