I'm a fourth year med student on leave and I'm familiar with a doc
whose typical practice is to have his ortho-tech (doc is an ortho
surgeon) sign his name to narcotics scripts (typically percocet etc).

This is without the physical presence of the doc in question and,
again, is routine for this office.

Is this legal?

I know that as a student I must use a special narc script pad (with
carbon copies) when writing these scripts and ALWAYS require an MD/DO
co signature (wasn't aware I could 'forge' said sig).

What are the rules here? I'm in Massachusetts by the way in case that
mitigates things in any way.

Thanks in advance,

Ryan