21.   No medicine is prescribed more often in the United States than Premarin, the most common form of hormone replacement therapy.

22.   Nurses with advanced training are also now allowed to prescribe medicines, with varying restrictions, in every state except Illinois.

23.   Nico prescribes western medicine but either it has no effect or Mathilde absent-mindedly forgets to take it.

24.   Nurse practitioners are able to prescribe medicine and, in some states, admit patients to the hospital.

25.   People who have jobs or live near academic hospitals will have the best chance at getting the lifesaving medicines routinely prescribed in the developed world.

26.   Practitioners in several other fields, including podiatrists, dentists and in some states nurse practitioners, can prescribe medicine without supervision.

27.   Pharmacoepidemiology is the study of the way doctors prescribe medicine and how patients use drugs.

28.   Raab had risen through the marketing ranks of the drug industry in the days when salesmen sent doctors on junkets to get them to prescribe new medicines.

29.   The FDA, which regulates drug manufacturing, has no jurisdiction over how doctors prescribe the medicines it approves.

30.   The medicine is often prescribed to elderly patients to ease anxiety.