...at which point we will meet in a comity discussing why we shouldn't give it to you and you will have to convince us otherwise without being present or being able to intervene. Best of luck, you're gonna do great!

Also, you need to spill your guts to two people for over a year each and get them to write supporting essays.

If it makes you happier: other, non-trans related medicine is in a similar vein.

Oh, you're having sleep issues from your anticonvulsants? We can't make you switch, until you tried a few other expensive matresses, went to an up to multi year long examinations for sleep issues, took benzos, and none of them helped. Also we are barring ourselves to switch you meds if you're gaining weight from them, because you were supposed to be on a diet and switch your hobbies to sports.

(TBH, a lot of sleep disorder stuff gets written off as "super health", if the meds happened to make you sleep more.)

I have to see a doctor twice a year to keep my medications; my mom has to go once every few months.

This makes them a gigantic amount of money. Thanks drug war.

For the first 150 years or so in the USA, you bought what you wanted over-the-counter, from aspirin to cocaine. Some people abused it, most did not... but then, only the drug maker makes money, not the clinic, hospital, doctors, nurses, staff, etc.

p.s. my very old mom at the end of her life has to pee in a jar a few times a year to prove that she isn't abusing any drugs so that she can continue to get her drugs.

Who is this cutie

Average Nordic healthcare

Thank the gods for the gray market

This would be an improvement than how it currently is with the nhs...

Other than antibiotics, whose misuse can actually affect someone other than the person misusing them, there is zero actual reason not to have literally every drug in existence be available "over the counter". No one should ever have to get a doctor's permission slip to access working medicine.