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After Dr. Poirett refuses to prescribe her anymore morphine, Sister Gertrude steals a ring from a dead patient and pawns it in the city buying the drug with the proceeds.
Moreover, the fiscal austerity they prescribe delays economic recovery.
Medicine, however affordable, is of no value if no one is available to prescribe or administer it.
UN agencies such as the Commission on Narcotic Drugs or the Office on Drugs and Crime are not mandated to prescribe specific drug strategies.
But the financial-market turmoil fueled a panic among eurozone leaders, leading them to misdiagnose the malady and prescribe the wrong medicine, which has served only to generate new symptoms.
As such, it helps to prescribe a course of action that so far has escaped public attention.
It is difficult to prescribe an approach for a single country, let alone all of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Then they entice doctors with inducements and giveaways – including trips, toys, fishing hats, and, in one case, a music CD called “Get in the Swing with OxyContin” (one of the most popular opioids) – to prescribe them.
Intuitive medicine describes when a doctor interprets a patient’s symptoms to arrive at a diagnosis and prescribe a treatment, the efficacy of which is often uncertain.
In developed countries, doctors prescribe antibiotics for even the most basic maladies, like the common cold.
The next time a patient arrives in my ward with a treatable infection, I need to be certain that the medicine I prescribe will be effective.
In such cases, drug companies gain a powerful incentive to mislead doctors and the public about their products’ safety and effectiveness, and even to promote their drugs for inappropriate uses, often using innovative side-payments to persuade doctors to prescribe them.
Each attributed the Great Depression to different causes, leading them to prescribe different remedies, which they administered unilaterally.
Those that engaged in the opposite behaviors – selling antibiotics as livestock “growth promoters” or actively encouraging physicians to prescribe the drugs – would lose points.
So clinicians could prescribe drugs mostly from highly rated companies, and avoid drugs from companies with low ratings.
Indeed, nearly all mainstream economists prescribe this approach for China.
This is the system that the Commission wants to prescribe for the whole Union, while banning all SEPA-incompatible products.
Of particular concern is the response of primary-care physicians, who prescribe 80% of all antidepressants, but often treat many patients per hour.
Indeed, the UN estimates that just six countries prescribe 78% of the total legal production of opiates, implying shortages of opium-based painkillers in many of the UN’s 185 other member states.
We can always anticipate the hedgehog’s take on a problem – just as we can predict that market fundamentalists will always prescribe freer markets, regardless of the nature of the economic problem.
To prescribe a cure, one must first diagnose the illness.
This has created an environment of fear in which governments are unwilling to import and doctors do not prescribe legitimate medications, owing to the widespread concern that some could be diverted and they could be perceived and prosecuted as drug dealers.
This would allow them to access support programs more easily, and even empower doctors and health professionals to prescribe medications for pain without fear of legal action.
Nigeria adopted a national policy last year to streamline the production of liquid morphine, which will make it easier for doctors to prescribe the painkiller to terminal patients.
If it does, we have all the reason we need to retain it; but if it does not, don’t we have as much power and as much right to change the arrangements under which we are governed as the framers had to prescribe them in the first place?
Unfortunately, diagnosing XDR typhoid is difficult, and doctors often prescribe antibiotics that are ineffective.
It is relatively cheap, and it is easy for family practitioners, who treat the majority of depressed people, to prescribe.
Some, for instance, prescribe budget deficits to stimulate the economy; others, remembering the Clinton Administration's claim that fiscal consolidation underpinned the US recovery in 1993, argue for deficit reduction.
Confusion about what cure to prescribe is caused in part by the fact that different medicines are suited for different problems, whereas much of the policy debate fails to distinguish among them adequately.
Then it’s often a question of trial and error; doctors prescribe a drug known to work some of the time in order to see whether it really does.
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