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According to a questionnaire results, physicians recommend medical cannabis to some of the patients who asked for a prescription but not to all.
sraeli physicians seem to be more knowledgeable about medical marijuana than before and more willing to consider its use by selected patients, according to a new pilot study in the Israel Medical Association Journal (IMAJ).
Researchers from Bar-Ilan University, Hillel Yaffe and Sheba Medical Centers and the Israel Defense Forces sent a 32-item questionnaire to 100 physicians of different specialties in the center of the country, and 72 with an average age of 50 responded. Male physicians were more likely to approve of medical cannabis than their female counterparts. Some 90 percent knew of at least one patient who was authorized to take medical marijuana for cancer or chronic pain, nausea, Crohn’s disease, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or other conditions, while 60% had recommended the drug for at...
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