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And so this poses a huge cultural challenge in taming malaria, because if people think it's normal to have malaria, then how do you get them to run to the doctor to get diagnosed, to pick up their prescription, to get it filled, to take the drugs, to put on the repellents, to tuck in the bed nets?
It turns out, the earned income tax credit, or EITC, is the best poverty prescription we have in the US.
When I wear my reading glasses: half-off prescription.
He gives us a prescription.
I have a Ph.D. in history of science from MIT, and had you asked me 10 years ago if a dog I loved, or just dogs generally, had emotions, I would have said yes, but I'm not sure that I would have told you that they can also wind up with an anxiety disorder, a Prozac prescription and a therapist.
Others, like one bonobo who lives in Milwaukee at the zoo there was on them until he started to save his Paxil prescription and then distribute it among the other bonobos.
And here is a place where I think actually that veterinary medicine can teach something to human medicine, which is, if you take your dog, who is, say, compulsively chasing his tail, into the veterinary behaviorist, their first action isn't to reach for the prescription pad; it's to ask you about your dog's life.
Put it this way, and I exaggerate only slightly: If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal consumers of Viagra were poor young black men, then smokable cocaine would be easy to get with a prescription from your doctor and selling Viagra would get you five to 10 years behind bars.
Now, what's common to all of these things is the idea that we've had these technologies to control nature only for the last 70, 80 or 100 years and essentially in a blink, we have squandered our ability to control, because we have not recognized that natural selection and evolution was going to find a way to get back, and we need to completely rethink how we're going to use measures to control biological organisms, and rethink how we incentivize the development, introduction, in the case of antibiotics prescription, and use of these valuable resources.
Now, before I did my residency, I did a master's degree in public health, and one of the things that they teach you in public health school is that if you're a doctor and you see 100 kids that all drink from the same well, and 98 of them develop diarrhea, you can go ahead and write that prescription for dose after dose after dose of antibiotics, or you can walk over and say, "What the hell is in this well?"
What about availability of prescription medication?
We could build gatekeeping into drug order systems so that every prescription gets a second look.
We could stop insisting on a prescription for our kid's ear infection before we're sure what caused it.
They are less likely to see a therapist, less likely to be diagnosed with depression, less likely to be taking prescription medication.
Give me the prescription anyway."
That's why these methods require a prescription from a doctor.
You know, 40 percent of adults in the US over 65 are on five or more prescription medications.
I even had contact lenses made in my prescription.
If palliative care were a cancer drug, every cancer doctor on the planet would write a prescription for it.
As Trina deflated the blood pressure cuff, she said, "We'll see about changing your prescription, OK?
During 2014 alone, 28,000 people died of drug overdoses associated with prescription drugs and heroin.
If you give people power without oversight, it's a prescription for abuse.
There were questions at the outset about who I am, what kind of work I do, what my goals are in looking for a medical marijuana prescription, or product, what my goals are, what my preferences are, what my hopes are, how do I think, how do I hope this might help me, what am I afraid of.
One more strange epidemic in the United States that I want to acquaint you with is this phenomenon of abuse and misuse of prescription drugs.
And so, as you stand back, you see 213,000 Vicodin pills, which is the number of hospital emergency room visits yearly in the United States, attributable to abuse and misuse of prescription painkillers and anti-anxiety medications.
We also hand out free medicines, right from our exam room: over-the-counter ones and some prescription ones, too.
It is estimated that in 2013 in the United States alone, the prescription drug expenditure to treat neurological conditions and mental illness was about 89 billion dollars annually.
The right prescription for a homeless patient is housing.
For non-English-speaking patients, translation is as important as a prescription pad.
So can you make a machine that could make any prescription lens very quickly on site?
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