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consists of physicians, nurses and nursing assistants, laboratory
technicians, administrative personnel, and office workers.
Petitioner has three offices in the Clinton Township area. At
each of these offices, petitioner stores chemotherapy drugs and
has the staffing, equipment, and supplies necessary to administer
chemotherapy treatments.
Chemotherapy drugs are pharmaceutical drugs which under
applicable State (Michigan) law must be prescribed by a doctor
and may be sold only by a licensed pharmacist. Petitioner is not
a licensed pharmacist, and it is unlawful for petitioner to sell
the drugs. Petitioner may use the drugs during the performance
of its chemotherapy services.
Chemotherapy drugs come in ready-to-use form or as powders
or liquids that require mixing. Petitioner generally maintains
about a 2-week supply of chemotherapy drugs, and it regularly
purchases chemotherapy drugs from suppliers to insure that it has
enough on hand to administer prescribed treatments. Chemotherapy
drugs, in an unmixed form, have shelf-lives varying from about 6
months to 1 year.
When an individual first becomes a patient of petitioner,
one of petitioner's physicians examines him or her to prescribe
necessary treatments, and that physician records the
individualized chemotherapy treatment in the patient's file.
After the patient is evaluated and the physician prescribes a
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