Maybe this person Was like my mother who went to the cardiologist for a cold...she went to him for any complaint and he prescribed anti depressants, meds for incontinence...you name it..she saw him every 3 months...when I took her in my house I got her geriatric dr who asked me why she was even seeing a cardiologist ...she had an angioplasty. 25 years ago and no other heart issues since....go figure...
Look up the medication in the PDR or at drugs.com. If the seizures are caused by TIA's or cardiac arrhythmias, it would make perfect sense for a cardiologist to treat the underlying cause. •Cerebrovascular disease is the most common cause of seizures in patients over 60 years old who are newly diagnosed with epilepsy
As far as I'm aware, any suitably licensed practitioner can prescribe most medications. I'm not clear if you want to ask a cardiologist to renew the patient's prescription and are not sure that would be allowed; or if the cardiologist has altered the patient's regimen and you're concerned that s/he might have done so unadvisedly.
Specialists don't usually like to cross borders, though, not without consulting anyway. What's happened, exactly?
Yes, it is legal, but I don't know why the primary care physician was not the one doing the prescription. We would have to know more to answer if it was okay.
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As far as I'm aware, any suitably licensed practitioner can prescribe most medications. I'm not clear if you want to ask a cardiologist to renew the patient's prescription and are not sure that would be allowed; or if the cardiologist has altered the patient's regimen and you're concerned that s/he might have done so unadvisedly.
Specialists don't usually like to cross borders, though, not without consulting anyway. What's happened, exactly?